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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 setup Node Capacity for a ship node by item type

A Retailer broadly classifies their products into two types - Soft line - Clothing, shoes etc. Big Ticket - Electronics, Appliances etc. Because the effort to pick/pack/ship these product type is different, the capacity for each ship node to handl...
almost 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

MDC (Modification Detection Code) support for native PGP service with in the Sterling Integrator.

Other PGP software's like 'McAFee' supports MDC (Modification Detection Code).
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Export Wizard Command Line should have resource tag option

The export/import wizard command line does not have all the options as the GUI. The command line is used if there is a need to export large amount of objects. Doing large volume export in the GUI can lead to timeouts. In general, the command line ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / 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 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Table admin_audit should log all SSH profile changes

Today, SI admin_audit table does not log any SSH profile changes. Requesting to including logging for SSH profile updates, deletions, and creates for auditing purposes.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Use Rest APIs as bulk file transfer mechanism. APIs to be shared with partners so they can push bulk files directly to B2B mailbox

Partners to push bulk files/messages directly to the mailbox Will be use like B2B Liberty API’s whereby partners will have to authenticate and then they should be able to do a basic upload “POST” to upload a file with a single http request. The AP...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Additional REST services

In our project, we have augmented the Sterling REST services with some other capabilities which we wrote as JAX-RS/Jersey REST services, hosted in a WAR in an HTTP Adapter. It would be good if you would consider in the roadmap providing the functi...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ITXA - Documentation needing to be updated for the following properties including their implications.

Customer is wanting documentation on the following properties and the implicatoins of using them: # Lock Manager settings: Uncomment to change the default values. # Maximum time to wait for acquiring a lock in ms. The default is 2 hours. #envelopi...

Multiple User Credentials

Our product team has grown exponentially; we now have around 9 teams with 2-4 developers in each team, and potentially all will have PROD access to IV at some point. Currently, we only have one generic user credentials to make changes in PROD. Thi...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration