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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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Microsoft Deprecating IMAP and Basic Auth - Oct/2022

Microsoft is deprecating the IMAP and Basic Auth authentication for mailboxes from Oct/2022 - please see the link below. As of now the only options to connect to Office 365 mailboxes is using IMAP and Basic Auth - but that will not be available es...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

Metrics in IV to understand the exposure rates

Ability to have insights into how much Inventory we are exposing for Demand and the reasons behind blocking by Dirty Node Vs Safety Stock vs Demand…etc., This information is critical for business and operations team. The below metrics are needed t...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Option for formatting XML in File Details Tab

Input and output documents in XML are difficult to read when not formatted. Current options allow you to specify a character and break on it, but the closest you can come to formatting XML is using the > character and that doesn't put element n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

enhance Database-Adapter for Oracle to provide insert all statement

due to the performance problems when inserting many rows to oracle database in WAN environment, we need the option of executing an INSERT ALL statement out of the card to target oracle DB. Is it possible to implement this feature to ITX? Single ro...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release

Role based access to unprovision of codelist facility

functionality where unprovision button is only available to first/primary sponsor admin.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Certify all components of Sterling suite to be use in virtual machines of clouds platforms like Azure, AWS, bluemix, etc.

Many customers are moving there infrastructure to the cloud, as a company that use computing services of IBM, the needs of our customers are essentials, so we need that the sterling suite must be compatible like on premise, with the O.S most use l...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

AES-256 encryption for .bin file creation

we understand that when a .bin file is created via lcu.jar it is encrypted with AES-128. We would like to see this encryption increased to AES-256 to satisfy our Security requirements.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release