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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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Ability to "configure" the location of files created in the ITX Design Studio directory

The "IBM Sterling Transformation Extender Design Studio" application writes a log file in the root directory of the installation folder. Example is the "ttmaker.log" generated when we import a Type Tree through the XML Schema Importer. IDEA: Abili...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2022

Would like to request getting support for Windows Server 2022 as soon as possible please.

Inflight - EDIT option for updating the Trading Partner Names

We are adding the Names in Inflight for New Client ID and Partner ID. When we want to change the display of names, we need to delete and need to create again. Right now we have an option of ADD & DELETE only, If we have an Option of EDIT for T...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Delivered

Safety Stock at Node Level

Enhancements to support Safety Stock at Node Level. Would require an IV API which accepts input at Ship Node and Safety Stock quantity. Node Level Safety Stock applies to all items present in the ship node if there is no safety stock configured at...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Ability to Add, delete, Update Servers and Ability to Add, delete, Update Metadata Rules & Metadata Actions through API

We need ability to perform below configurations in Control Center through API interface - Add, update, delete a server to control center Add, update, delete a server group to control center Add, update, delete a Metadata Rule to control center Add...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Using EC2 Profile to access AWS S3 buckets

SI 6.0.2 has an S3 client but mandates the use of access and secret keys to connect to AWS S3 buckets. It does not allow the use of Assume IAM role or EC2 profiles to access S3 . Assume IAM role/EC2 Profiles eliminate the need to store and maintai...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Sterling File Agent support required for AWS S3 buckets

As Enterprise is moving towards AWS cloud, support to watch S3 bucket will be required for business.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 6 Delivered

Support for Azure Blob Storage

Following our multi-cloud strategy the support for Blob Storage from Azure is important since Azure is one of the main players in public cloud, hence the native support for Azure Blob Storage is a request we have had from different customers.

Allow for generic or service accounts that don't expire passwords for systems making calls

Either allow for generic or service accounts with non-expiring passwords or allow for other authentication means for apps that are making calls. Resetting every x days is intrusive.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Support of Diffie Hellman Algorithm- Swithcing from SHA1 to SHA2

Tyco Electronics wants to switch over to SHA2 to trade with its partners. However the product doesn't support this feature. Not having SHA2 support in SSH handshake is preventing them to trade with their critical partners as some of their partners...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 8 Delivered