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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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Non SuperUser Node Discovery Permission

Currently the only role within Control Center that can run a Node Discovery is the superuser role. We need this to be a permisson that can be set to other roles.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct to provide for CCSID 1371 extension (EBCDIC MBCS) support

CCSID 1371 extension is recently working by IBM Globalization Center of Competency to release the reserved area from [wards 4A-4B, 92-C1, E3-FE] to accommodate more Traditional Chinese characters. Sterling Connect:Direct should provide the support...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

A hope about the alt.comm.outbound parameter in the netmap.cfg

A hope about the alt.comm.outbound parameter in the netmap.cfg
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Enhancement of ndmapi_connect_c( )

There is an API in CD, it is ndmapi_connect_c(ERROR_H error, char * ndm_hostname, char * ndm_portname). But we need a new version of this API. It is like this: ndmapi_connect_c(ERROR_H error, char * ndm_hostname, char * ndm_portname, char *user_na...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Capture x509 SSL Exp Dates for Adjacent Nodes

Currently, we cannot find the x.509 Exp Dates in the Copy Termination records for our adjacent nodes. We would like to be able to report on upcoming expired certs for our business partners via an Activity Report.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Event Enhancements

1) In order to use new bucket or to change existing bucket config we have to raise PMR and it is time consuming because of multi team dependency. It will be good if there is API or SST process to update the event configuration. 2) Currently all di...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

To add resource permissions for the Order Hub home page.

Order Hub is used by business users apart IT support team and they might ending up creating the IBM ticket using the IBM Support link for any Order Hub issue.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to configure multiple IP addresses in a NETMAP config instead of just one.

This is useful as clients can change their servers or flip to DR when there is an issue and we have to update the same netmap config or have a CLP do it. Allowing this would be like MQ where we can have multiple IP's in a connection string. Many C...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 21 Future consideration

Allow changes to duplicate item for cleanup after Manage Duplicates function is processed

When we Manage Duplicates, the item that we are moving the usage from becomes locked and we can no longer make any changes to that item. If we forget to set the item to Business Impact E and set the ROP/Max to 0/0 before we do the Manage Duplicate...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Need to support criteria-based, more granular archive/purge policies for metadata and files

Requirement stated by customer is that B2Bi needs to support more granular archive/purge policies based on specific criteria such as trading partner and transaction type (identifiable through EDI Correlation).
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Future consideration