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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...
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...

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API for "Invite Again" functionality

If partners are bulk uploaded but not sent an invite, the only way to send the invite is to manually click "Invite Again" in the UI. An API should exist for this.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Ability to copy order in Store engagement

Fot Costco, we have a use case where existing member order is looked up and copied over to create a new order. As a Store associate, I should be able to capture the order with copy order functionality which doesn't seem to exist today.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Provide ability to have transit/delivery days configurable by order type & carrier service

Historically Saturday and Sunday have not been considered business days for carriers to transit and/or deliver packages. Based on the SLA the due in home date has been calculated accordingly, and the appropriate carrier service options are conside...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Support for EBICS protocol/authentication in the DMZ

To enable EBICS protocol to be authenticated in the DMZ , SSP with SEAS using either LDAP or Sterling B2B Integrator (similar model to SSO token authentication to avoid duplicating authentication).
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Be able to rollout activities based on the union (common partners) of multiple attributes

Currently, when rolling out an activity, you have the option to do so using groups, attributes or by selecting individual partners. If you choose attributes, you can specify multiple attributes upon which to invite partners but the behavior is tha...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Functionality already exists

PEM Should notify sponsor when an email is bounced back.

Some Partners email servers are not receiving PEM emails and are likely bouncing them back. PEM should let the sponsors know if the Trading Partner did not receive the email.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

SIEM Integration with IBM Sterling Filegateway

SIEM is used to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from sterling applications, and users in real-time can detect issues whenever required, It seems sterling filegatway is not supported to integrate SIEM. we have raised PMR support ticket with IB...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

IdAM integration with either OKTA/ Compact identity provider

Since the customer is from the Banking and Financial sector, IdAM is expected to manage the relationship between an entity and the resources to which access is required. We have raised a PMR ticket (TS012827600) stating that we do not have any doc...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Unable to receive email notifications after changing of payload repository as filesystem in SFTP Server Adapter

Email notifications are very critical in business use cases where customer are required to get notified when file transfer success/failure, system performance.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Enable Log Rollover based on Size and not Number of lines

I enabled Translation Logs setting the Log Level to ON with Rolling Over every 100000 lines. It started creating the logs of size as big as 52 GB which is really huge in size and doesn't make any sense as it can't be read. Please provide the Log R...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration