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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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Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add captcha for IBM WSC OrderHub portal for additional security

Problem Statement - Brute-force attack/Reverse brute-force attack issues in the Order Hub console reported by security team. Description - When the attacker gets a hold of either username or password by some means, they can systematically check fo...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Parallel Executions of a Shared Activity

In the case where a maintenance activity (ex. user account password reset) is shared to a partner account, we need the ability for multiple partner admins or users on that acccount to execute the same shared activity simultaneously. Currently, PEM...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

SAP Adapter Configuration: Add Retry Limit and Retry time interval option

Currently, we have the option of Retry limit and time interval for FTP and SFTP protocols. As SAP Adapter in SCBN has been recently introduced, the option of retry limit and time interval is missing from Inflight setup screen. We should have this ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Equipment Linked to Item - Bulk Download Capability

It's great that the Equipment module allows you to search the equipment and then list the items attached to them. However, we need the ability to show, and download, the referenced Equipment for the Item.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 3 Needs more information

Showing of names of tasks and dialog when one hovers a mouse cursor

there are some tasks which have tens of dialog. The dialog names are too long to be fully visible on the icon. It is cumbersome to everytime right click+edit to see the dialog name while searching for the dialog to review/modify
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Increase the capacity of UI to accommodate API response and provide it as a download

Many times, the API outputs become huge over time due to which they do not fit the max threshold of characters set. Can we increase the threshold and also provide the option to download the output as it is convenient to analyze it in a text editor...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Planned for future release

Sterling map editor - Search and replace option in Extended rule tab

Sterling map editor does not have the option to find or replace any codes in extended rule tab . Presently we using notepad by copying the code manually from map editor and finding or replacing the logic's, which is taking more time and some times...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration