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File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Native support for Azure Blob Storage acess

For supportability it would be great to see native support added for Azure Blob Storage along with the current plan to support S3
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 6 Delivered

PEM - API Method to retrieve Trading Partner Standard User account information

Client has an audit requirement to generate a report of all PEM users (Sponsors, Trading Partner Administrators, and Trading Partner Standard Users). There are REST API methods to get Sponsor and Trading Partner Admin accounts, but not Trading Par...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication)

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication) within the communication the appropriate communication protocols. It is an extension of the TLS protocol. For information on SI, please see: http://www.networking4all.com/en/ssl+certificates/faq/server+...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 17 Delivered

Control Center Rule Correlation

Two of the things we utilize Control Center for is SLC notification and processes that do not end successfully. We have some transmissions that are monitored on SLCs that are contractual (sla). We do get an alert if the sla transmission has not st...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 4 Delivered

Rest API to trigger a Business Process

Trigger a Business Process via API with 2 modes: 1- Synchronous : Wait for the Business Process Execution 2- Asynchronous: Trigger the BP and get a return code (BP started successfully)
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered

Support for wildcard certificate

At times we have customers who are using a wildcard certificate for SFG, or a certificate with multiple host names. PEM throws an error when trying to connect SFG if the host name in certificate and URL does not match.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Delivered

Enabling Partner Onboarding In Global Mailbox When One Of The Data Center Is Completely Down

In Global Mailbox with multiple data centers, if one of the data centers is completely down(including SFG, GM wlp, Cassandra), we are unable to create/update any new partners
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Delivered

API to GET all items having supplies for a node

IBM Inventory Visibility Service does not provide an API to GET all supplies available for a node. In our implementaion, there are hundreds of shipnodes. Also, many old items are discontinued often. If we want to do a comparison with IV for any ol...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Delivered

Include active MAXUSERS in high water mark SMF record

Highwater mark SMF record should include Active MAXUSERS to have full pictures of how region is performing. We've experienced BTL issues relating to high MAXUSERS counts and we don't have accurate insight into how many users are active at that time.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered