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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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RestAPI support for Token Authentication rather than Basic Authentication

Looking for a future service availability to support Token Authentication, either with RestAPI or new one. As per my conversation with an IBM engineer on another troubleshooting call; support of Token Authentication by RestAPI is planned in future...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

On the Code (List) Info form, put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data fields much wider

Please put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data entry field as wide, or wider, than the size of the Description data entry field.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

URL contains the session token which can be easily captured by an attacker

Control centre URL contains session token displayed in URL as a query string. Our security standard mandates that Applications should use an alternative mechanism for transmitting session tokens, such as HTTP cookies or hidden fields in forms that...
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Submitted

Under the equipment tab, we would like to be able to open an individual equipment and see all material spares consumed/on a BoM for that equipment.

From the equipment tab, we would like to be able to click on a piece of equipment and immediately see all the materials that are linked to and/or have been consumed by that equipment and be able to navigate to those materials in the tool.
almost 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Self-Service option in SFG, allow our business partner to replay their own failed transfers.

Is there an option in SFG to allow our business partner to replay their own failed file transfers for their accounts? If so, do you have any documentation/information on how to enable that feature?
almost 8 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Node Availability API to support Node Transfer

Adding support for node transfer in IV will allow a retailer who does not have SIP whom is currently supporting click and collect just from store stock to easily transition to supporting DC to Store transfer as well as Store to Store transfer when...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Enable an option to automatically exclude out-of-stock SKUs from Store Engagement search results.

Currently, Store Engagement displays SKUs with zero inventory in search results, which may lead to inefficiencies and confusion for store associates. This idea proposes an out-of-the-box configuration or filter that prevents out-of-stock SKUs from...
12 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Populate Tag information on the AVAILABILITY_INFO column of YFS_INVENTORY_ALERTS so that ATP can be calculated at the tag level

Populate Tag information on the AVAILABILITY_INFO column of YFS_INVENTORY_ALERTS so that ATP can be calculated at the tag level.
12 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Allow multiple tags to be passed in getTagListForOrdering API

Better perfromance could be achieved if getTagListForOrdering API allowed multiple tags to be passed in the input. That will allow us to not call the API for each tag.
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration