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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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Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Password policy enforcement - minimum change password timeframe

To deny automated user's password change, add an additional parameter in password policy indicating the minimum number of days between a password is changed and the next time it can be changed.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Supported encryption keys - ssh-ed25519

My customer will need to integrate with 80 other banks via SFTP, but one of the types of Hostkey that other bank's uses isto ed25519, but B2B does not support it. This ed25519 key will soon be used a lotthis key is becoming common. I tried it thro...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Future consideration

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...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

Sterling API Gateway Enablement: Enable Customer Company for ‘connections’ option through SCBN Hub

When a customer company name is given Config Hub access, only the self-service of Codelist and map gets enabled. To setup API Gateway configuration, the development team has to manually run an API to get the Connection parameter enabled in Config ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Future consideration

Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Myfilegateway 2.0 - merge Upload and Download views

Hello IBM team, currently, the "Upload" and "Download" views are splited in two distinct parts. This type of views create confusion from an end user point of view. Our proposal is to merge the "Upload" and "Download" views in order to hav...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration