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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...
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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...
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Ability to set dirty node

We need an ability to set Dirty Node at Item Node combination that resolves automatically based on Inventory Movement or Time. Currently IV does not seem to suppor this feature.
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 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.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Delivered

Adding Multiple Trading Partner ID/Name relationships in Inflight

Whenever we onboard a Customer on SCBN, as part of setup we need to add Trading Partner ID and Name Relationship in Trading Partner Names tab manually. Any medium size project has TP counts varying from 100-300 Trading Partners. Adding 300 entries...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 6 Delivered

Global Mailbox backend file replication SSH settings (ciphers, hmacs, group exchanges) currently are not configurable, even in 6.1

QUALYS scans are revealing that the out-of-box settings utilized CBC ciphers and SHA1 group-exchanges. These should be configurable settings for the TCP 33001 port to secure with CTR and/or GCM ciphers as well as SHA2/256 group exchanges.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way. Below is the use case under consideration. The asynchronous update to IV (as menti...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

In Server Inventory report, we are not able to include server meta data parameter as an output parameter.

We have specified all 10 server meta data parameters in the connected connect direct servers and want these parameters in the server inventory report. As of now, we are seeing the server meta data parameters in filter option only in Audit > Sev...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Delivered

Kits functionality in OMS Inventory Visibility

We attended the demo session for OMS Inventory Visibility and felt the product is looking great. However the product is missing support for kits and components (bundles). This is one of the must needed feature for some of the retail clients...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Ability to have a read-only view of the PEM log files from within the UI

Similar to how Sterling Integrator has a Logs page within the dashboard UI by which an admin can view (read only) SI logs within a browser window, it would be nice for cloud instances of PEM if a similar feature was available for sponsor admins. T...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Delivered

Need Design Studio in Linux environment to support IIB mqsicreatebar command on Linux to build applications containing ITX v9

Need Design Studio in Linux environment to support IIB mqsicreatebar command on Linux to build applications containing ITX v9, as suggested by Level 2 Technical Support for IBM Transformation Extender (TX).
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Issue a message when CDz reached NODE Specific Max PARSESS Limit

CDz does issue SVTM082I when CDz as node hit the node specific SESS.SNODE.MAX. However, it doesn't issue any message when it reached Max PARSESS. Could you add a corresponding message for this so that we can easily figure out it hit the limit? It ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

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