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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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SI API's should update Admin Audit table just like other SI functions

We have identified a gap in that the API's do not update the admin audit table. The example we found is in the scheduling API. Turning on or off a schedule, in the UI is logged into the table with who did it, when and what. If the API is used, no ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Putback capability for click and collect order cancellations

For BOPIS orders as part of backroom pick the picked items are moved to a BOPIS staging location or some secure location which is not then available for picking or walk-in customers. In case of a customer cancellation at that point or a no-show, t...
about 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Sterling REST API Update without prior get

Hi, We would like to update a specific user groups and accounts without changing the earlier configurations and permissions. In order to do so, we have to first GET the earlier configuration of the interested account, then add the new configuratio...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Allow Sponsor More Flexibility in Changing Partner Account User Roles

Here is some information on the issues associated with having a main partner admin associated with every PEM partner account. Let's call this the super admin for the purposes of this email. The super admin is the partner admin who is required to r...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

File agent high availability run GUI cdfa -C from a single Default_Config.ser copy in shared workspace

Instead of maintaining multiple local copies of Default_Config.ser, could a parm be added to cdfa -C to direct GUI to use a single copy in the shared directory. Similar to the cdfa -w parameter.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Template for Holiday Schedule

Please add a feature to allow for exclusion template we can apply to all SLC instead of having to go into each SLC and select the exclusions.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

SCC to support SNMPv3

We implemented IBM Sterling Commerce as our standard file transfer service. Currently, our Control Center is sending traps using SNMPv2. Our primary interest is in being able to receive and send SNMPv3 traps as v2 comes with a lot security vulnera...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Planned for future release

Sterling Control Center to handle all events for Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager

System : SCCActor is SSP CM / Websphere MQ Presently Sterling Control Center (SCC) event monitoring from Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager (SSPCM) via Websphere MQ only works on few alerts, We need all events coming from SSPCM to Websphe...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release