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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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Upload UI component - improve user experience

The user experience of the Upload button in UI dialogs could be improved greatly. Currently, not counting the browser's file-selection window, it takes 5 mouse clicks and typing in a name to upload a new file: 1) Click the Upload button in t...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Create API to list Node Relationships

There is no API available to show the Node relationship. There is an API (manageOrgRelantship) to create and manage Node Relationships. However, there is no equivalent list or detail API to show the relationship. Therefore a direct SQL call is req...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Fix manageNodeTransferSchedule API to create Node Relationship that does not exist

Currently, the manageNodeTransferSchedule API creates a relationship in one direction from Node A to Node B. However if a Node Transfer Schedule is created in the reverse direction (from Node B to Node A), the reverse Org relationship is not creat...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to define picking capacity at order line level

This is copied over from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=59894 What is the requested functionality Picking capacity* is maintained for each fulfilment unit (STO, CDC,CPU etc) on Order Line level. The ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Installation Manager Documentation

IM should be simple to install and easy to use. Since the UI cannot be used for the install there needs to be explicit instructions on how to Install/Upgrade Sterling Integrator, including sizing and recommended location, considering the old way w...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Is a defect

Does IBM have the capability to attach an 864 or 824 to an original OB doc in IBM when a 864/824 is sent back by a customer to highlight the said errors

Does IBM have the capability to attach an 864 or 824 to an original OB doc in IBM when a 864/824 is sent back by a customer to highlight the said errors? Similar to how a 997 is attached to document in the "Document Detail" section of Inflight. Ba...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 4 Not under consideration

Digitally Sign the Partner Invitation Emails and Subsequent Followup Notifications

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Planned for future release

Provide a way to deploy database changes such as adding a new field ahead of the full deployment.

Due to it taking an extra hour about for the DB entity updates and the required re-org activity a deployment that adds a new field takes longer than a normal deployment. Due to this want to be able to run it separately just like the on-prem versio...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Selecting Active Directory Group for authentication

Instead of selecting each user from LDAP and give access. If we have option to select the Active Directory Group(low_pre_access_group, high_pre_access_group) from LDAP and assign to access. It will be helpful and reduce task of adding every new us...
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 3 Needs more information