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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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System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level.

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level. We need this feature same as RTAM in Sterling where inventory can be published.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Enhancing the Password Policy

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over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct for zOS copying files to SNODE (Linux or Windows ) at the same time using a '*' mask to individual datasets

The client SERPRO would like that was possible in Connect:Direct CDP pull a list of datasets that meet your dataset mask with the '*' (for eg. ABCDEF*.TXT)and based on that list of datasets that match then to start copies each of the datasets one ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

Ability to consider unassigned demands (no assigned node) in availability calculation

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...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 8 Future consideration

Support or Ignore DOCTYPE tag n the XML payload gracefully rather than failing during REST request from 3rd party systems

OMS CoC need to Support or Ignore DOCTYPE tag n the XML payload gracefully rather than failing during REST request from 3rd party systems OMS is integrated with various 3rd party systems. DOCTYPE is XML standard and has been followed by various ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Need proper PDF Documentation of version 6.0.0.0

The existing HTML format documentation is not easy to use. The generate PDF link on the version 6.0 documentation will generate probably 100 pdfs. We need proper PDF documents ...may be one install pdf, one planning pdf and one administration pdf....
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect

Display Starting position of the field in field level properties for "FIXED, IMPLICIT" group/file.

In ITX, when the group is defined as fixed and implicit, to identify a field position most of the time we must sum up the field length of previous fields when there is no layout. This would simplify the identification of field in positional files.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

White list PROD IBMId IDP hosts for OMoC PRE and PROD envs as part of initial provisioning.

As part of the initial OMoC PRE and PROD env provisioning network setup it would be sensible to egress whitelist the IBMId SSO IDP hosts. idaas.iam.ibm.com / 104.121.86.210 . This would save time when setting up SSO and Federated SSO authenticatio...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

IV Full Sync: Ability to import inventory availability into OMS in batch mode and reset any items to o if there is no open relevant demands in OMS

The loadInvnetoryMismatch API is used to bulk load inventory (supply qty for each SKU/location combination) into OMS and this API has a feature (CompleteInventoryFlag) where the API can reset inv to 0 for any items that are not passed in the input...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release