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Allow greater flexibility when amending Secure+ parms

Having a process which is reliant on a person logging onto an ISPF panel to update something like a TLS setting is no longer tenable in a modern IT environment. Automation and self service are the order of the day and the way Secure+ updates are b...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Delivered

Sterling B2B Integrator full support for SQL Server 2016 'Always On' features

The database that supports B2B Integrator needs to be highly available - and the facility which supports high availability in SQL Server 2016 is the "Always-On-Availability-Group" feature. B2BI needs to support this to provide a highly available p...

Need to monitor the progress of IV APIs

The current IV has no way of monitoring the progress of APIs and we need better visibility and access to logs. Also, we need an API to query all the items sync'd up per store / all stores.
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Online documentation should be relevant for latest release and contain more useful details

No description provided
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Delivered

BUC - make inventory reporting bundle aware

BUC inventory search should be able to take a SKU which is a bundle and return the inventory at the selected nodes, calculating the inventory of the bundle based on the inventory of the component SKUs.
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Make fields with regard to password expiry customizable

FORGOT_PASSWORD_EXPIRY_DURATION_DAYS RESET_PASSWORD_EXPIRY_DURATION_HOURS These values are set to very high values by default and cannot be customized in our cloud instance. We'd like to see this changed. It's a dedicated instance of PE...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Delivered

Have statistics Records (CT and maybe others) indicate the true node a transfer was sent to when ALT.NODEDEF is coded in the Netmap for a node

Currently if two nodes are defined NODEA and NODEB in the netmap and NODEA has ALT.NODEDEF=NODEB coded, if NODEA can not sent to its primary IP address coded then the file will be sent to the IP address coded on NODEB. The issue is that the CT sta...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 7 Delivered

Enhance SFTP Inbound Push and SFTP Outbound Pull Configuration Profiles to store authorized user key

The SFTP Inbound Push and SFTP Outbound Pull Configuration Profiles does not have the option to store authorized user keys. These keys are needed for SFTP key authentication and should be stored in these profiles.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Enhance the product to prevent large file transfers from failing when the TCP channel goes idle and gets closed due to inactivity.

When using the Aspera FASP capability in Connect Direct and SSP the TCP channel will go completely idle while the data is being transferred over the UDP channel. Production networks will detect this as an inactive sessions after tjust a few minute...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

Embed refresh report in PU process

Clients complain that the PU completion email has arrived but yet their analytics reports have not got the latest data. The refresh_report is a separate process. There should be some automation to avoid confusion on clients so once the PU is finis...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 5 Delivered