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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Enable client certificate authentication configuration in Inflight for HTTPs Setup

HTTPs allows both Basic Authentication and Client certificate authentication.Inability of setting up client certificate authentication in SCBN for HTTPs is upsetting the client who prefers to have one connection setup against multiple , potentiall...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 4 Not under consideration

Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for HPE Nonstop Platform

It was mentioned in HPE NonStop Forum that TLSv1.3 will be coming out later 2019 year. It was also mentioned by HPE that TLSv1.0 is a degraded security protocol and that HPE NonStop Client Applications running on X86 and Itanium Platform need to m...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 6 Future consideration

Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Ability to define picking capacity at order line level

This is copied over from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=59894 What is the requested functionality Picking capacity* is maintained for each fulfilment unit (STO, CDC,CPU etc) on Order Line level. The ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

To make addition of Comments manadatory in Config Centre as best prctice while editing envelopes

As part of the Watson Customer Engagement team we onboard new partner for our clients into SCBN solution . Onboarded solutions like envelopes often need modifications based on ticket PER/Support cases requests . Currently when we edit an en envelo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Improve the search filter options that are available when resubmitting and resending documents in the InFlight application

The search filters are limited when "Input files to restart" and "Output files to resent" are chosen. These search filter conditions need to be the same as the filter conditions that appear in the "Search for Documents" section.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Functionality already exists

Add parameter for Oracle DB Connection String

When operating in an Oracle custer invironment it would be useful to be able to provide a DB connection string as paramter when carryng out configCC.sh. Reason: If only IP is provided itmay happen that a DB switch in the background causes system t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Having mode T or O dynamic in APIs through CXTransferSubmit in CX Unix (linux) for Societe Generale

Due to a concentration project at Societe Generale where all transfers are going to be concentrated in a Central Hub (SFG + CX) we faced an issue regarding the mixed of partners defined in mode T and Partners in mode O. In order to not multiply th...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Planned for future release

The ability to select Supply Type in the Sourcing templates.

Currently the sourcing template allows us to select ALL INVENTORY, INVENTORY WITH CURRENT and FUTURE ETA TOGETHER and ONHAND ONLY INVENTORY. We would want another TWO options. 1. BY SUPPLY TYPE 2. ONLY FUTURE INVENTORY
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration