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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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Allow editing of fields on the item record despite a D or E error.

More and more, IBM MIO is becoming a highly visible data source for our company, and sometimes I would like to change something like lead time, unit price, etc. while NOT exporting parameters. This is not an issue UNLESS the item has a calculation...
21 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Allow manual parameter setting (Define min/max, hold one issue, hold zero issues, etc.) despite an E RO error.

Currently, I am unable to set manual reorder values if an item has an E RO error. Since I do not need the tool's recommendations in these cases, I would rather not have to adjust my settings to clear the error before I set the parameters.
21 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Ability to clear inventory for a DC in SIP to reload

Similar to loadinventoryMismatch, we want the ability to zero out all inventory supplies that we didn't provide during the supply load. This would help us fix any inventory issues quickly rather than having to zero out manually again
22 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

OSA Parameter to add CD server in to CCM/CCD group

Currently CD is pushing OSA events to CCD/CCM and it is discovering the CD nodes display information along with CD Server status and CD Agent in CCD / CCM.Now OSA Parameter to add CD server in to CCM/CCD group.

CDWS API for the update Key Certificates with certificate path

Currently The API /cdwebconsole/svc/securepluskeycertificate is looking for "certificateData": "", which needed certificate content to be copied but it would be good if the API allows us to provide the certificate and use it.
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

Replacing LDAP with ISVG

In our company we are replacing LDAP with other security, for IBM Sterling also we need to replace LDAP with ISVG, I raised case for this and told ISVG is not tested with IBM Sterling SEAS product, As we need to replace LDAP with ISGV, Could you p...

To be able to use same UOM code for multiple UOM Type (Eg: Quantity and Weight)

Currently OMoC is not able to define same UOM code for 2 different purposes. Eg: KGS / LBS for Weight and Quantity. This creates an issue and requires workaround to use different UOMs which would not be in sync with other systems. Hence leading to...
26 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Needs more information

API required in CDWS for cfgcheck

Currently, CD UNIX provides the cfgcheck script, which validates the following configuration files: initparm.cfg userfile.cfg netmap.cfg Default_Config.json This script performs validation and reports any configuration issues, including duplicate ...
26 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Optimization to database queries for MailboxEvaluateAllRoutingRules

Applies to MSSQL (and likely other Database platforms) Performance of a core DB Query behind MailboxEvaluateAllAutomaticRules needs to be improved. Current queries as of 6.2 are expensive on Memory and TempDB usage and periodically run into perfor...
27 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Submitted