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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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Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Need to include velocity code in all cycle count pubsub messages

We need an inclusion of velocity code in all Pubsub messages i.e,countRequestCreated,countRequestCompleted,countTasksCreated,countTasksAssigned,varianceApproved,inventoryAdjustment(on variance approval for cycle count).Since we are trying to custo...
about 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Other 3 Future consideration

RestAPI support for Token Authentication rather than Basic Authentication

Looking for a future service availability to support Token Authentication, either with RestAPI or new one. As per my conversation with an IBM engineer on another troubleshooting call; support of Token Authentication by RestAPI is planned in future...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requiremen...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Exclude set periods from the Movement and Forecast Usage calculation due to strike or curtailment

Asset Intensive companies tend to have unionized labor forces that can go "on strike" for a number of months at a time. The usage during these strike periods tends to be considerably curtailed or non-existent. The impact of a 4-6 months-long strik...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Ability/ API to provide inventory availability considering the OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER in the response of IV service

The Get Network Availability API exposed in Inventory Visibility mandate Distribution Group to be passed in the input. The API does not consider OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER demand types while computing the availability in IV. This leads to inconsistenci...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 7 Future consideration

Add verification on security level of signatureMethod/digestMethod

On XML Digital Signature service, you can choose which signature and digest method to use when signing; http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256 https://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha1 However, when using the service in verify mo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

To improve the messaging within MyFileGateway for the end user/customer

A user/customer uploaded a file in MFG and the file was uploaded when checking the Arrived File tab a message stating The system has not processed this file. Check back later and view the processing status using the file activity tab. This was the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration