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APIs should publish events that can be consumed and actions can be taken upon

IV APIs should publish events e.g. On successful creation of reservation or on partial reservation so that an action can be taken upon that event.
almost 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

APIs should be idempotent

In distributed application architecture, if the APIs are not idempotent duplicate data issues can occur. e.g. duplicate requests for Reservation blocks inventory for other customers.
almost 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication Server High Availability Scenario Failover Mechanism Needs

Hi, We would like to extend the options of failover scenarios in SSP-SEAS integration. In high available configuration, where there are two active SEAS, when one of the servers are down, the other takes over the others responsibilities. However,...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

SSP support on Windows Server 2016

Hi We are upgrading all our Windows OS server to 2016 in our environment, and we noticed the SSP doesnt support Windows server 2016. Can this request be looked into urgently. Thanks Sathish
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Delivered

Remove Write Access Requirement from Install Dir

As per the below , https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/logged-user-must-have-write-permission-websphere-transformation-extender-installation-directory-windows-operating-systems Write permission is required in the installation directory. This raises ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Delivered

Need Option to cancel InProgress Move

Store Next Gen : Should provide the ability to cancel the Inprogress move through UI irrespective of Serial availability in SIM. Existing Behaviour : Able to cancel the move which is in Not started state.
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Delivered

AS2 Support for AES256 Message Encryption Algorithm

Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 currently supports only Triple DES Our partners are requesting to support AES encryption algorithm. One of the key partners is going to decommission support for triple DES by September 2018. This support for AES is very...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

Support for MS SQL 2016 and 2017 (and 2014 compat mode)

Requesting support for MS SQL Server 2016/2017, including support for the SQL Server 2014 compatible modes.

Propagate source DCB information to SNODE when using DATACLAS= keyword

The beauty of zOS-to-zOS COPYs is the inherent ability to automatically transfer the source DCB information to the SNODE side for proper dataset allocations. If the source DCB changes, the process does not need to be altered. This generic process ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

999 ISA Control Number

Currently the ISA control number (ISA) always has a value of 000000001 in every 999 transaction that is generated out of compliance. X12.5 Interchange Control Structure section 5.1.2 requires a unique number within a reasonably extended time frame...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Delivered