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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...
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...

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Capabilities to connect to Google Cloud Storage bucket

Currently there is no adapter or services which enables us to connect to a Google cloud storage bucket. It would be really good to have this functionality.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

Maximum Logins per user sessions settings configuration in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Adaptor level

Currently in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy configuration manager at adapter level there is configuration for Maximum Sessions. We are looking for configuration for Maximum Logins" per user.
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

API to update Order Service Document status to null

Current Process: When an order is synchronized, the document status is set to null. Once the order is archived, its status in OS changes to archived. Issue: When an order is restored to Sterling from OS, and if Sterling is not integrated with OS f...
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support for DomToDoc to work correctly when used in service output message

You can currently use DomToDoc in the output message of a service Ex. <operation name="Replace Apostrophes"> <participant name="LW_SA_DKR"/> <output message="DocKeywordReplaceInputMessage"> <assign to="literal_mode">true<...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2

Option to NOT allocate orders against PO data

Orders allocate to PO_PLACED if eta of PO is equal to or less than the current date. If suppliers do not provide ETA updates in a timely manner we could be allocating to POs that have not yet arrived or will not arrive on time. We still want to tr...
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Make the 'SourceReferenceNumber' available through the InFlight APIs

The 'SourceReferenceNumber' is a key field used for audit and reconciliation purposes. It is essential that this value be made available through the InFlight APIs.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 3 Planned for future release

The email ID is with a limit of 30 characters, that needs to be modified to allow more than 30 characters

The IBM Sterling deployment using SAML has a limitation at present, where it does not allow users with more than 30 characters in the email ID to login. Whenever the partner users email id or username greater than 30 characters system doesn't allo...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

When a scheduled work order that initiated a purchase via reservation is changed it should not be allowed to be closed or moved without addressing the impacted Purchase Requisition(s) or Purchase Order(s)

You are committing dollars to purchase products that may not be used for a long period of time or potentially ever. Giving visibility to operations and supply chain will allow for better decision making before work is cancelled or deferred.
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted