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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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HTTP Proxy enablement on B2B Mail client Adapter

With the addition of OAuth2.0 authentication on Sterling B2B Mail client Adapter all connections to the Microsoft exchange server will now happen on Micro Soft cloud, which means that connection earlier would stay within the company's network, but...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Allow PGP integration to remote key/secret vault - currently SFG only allows local installation

Currently within our Sterling File Gateway installation we use Symantec PGP Command Line to encrypt/decrypt files between a few of our trading partners. The PGP server installation is running locally on the same application servers which are runni...
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Provision to enable creating Resource Pool for Service Items from UI [either SBC or Order HUB]

Today we are able to create Resource Pool for Node Capacity, however we dont have a way other than using OOB Api to create resource pool for Services. It would be a good to have configuration in UI to create resource pool for Provided services and...
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Use temporary filename during file transfert on Unix and Windows

We use Connect Direct to transfert files between several systems to Open system and use IWA (IBM Workload Automation) with file watcher on target system to start automaticlly scripts when a file arrive. It work fine with small files but sometime w...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Logging user activity - to track user's activity while they navigate on dashboard

As a part of business requirement, we need to log activities related to all users in Sterling Integrator. If a user who is not allowed to view a specific BP data, that should be logged, which can be useful for auditing purpose.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Lead times on the combination of node and item level (B2B)

we propose the following enhancement:​ For calculating ESD and EDD, OOB OMS should consider lead times based on the combination of Node (Ship Node) and Item level. Additionally, the selection of parameters to be considered—individually or in combi...
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

For calculating ESD and EDD of Sales Order, OMS should consider receiving calendar too

we propose the following enhancement:​ - For calculating ESD and EDD, OOB OMS should take in consideration both the Ship Node and Receiving Node calendars for Sales Orders too​
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Whenever the receiving node is marked as "OFF" in OrderHub, the system should prevent order creation.​ In case the order is created and the receiving node is inactive, automatically move order to a "Backordered" status during scheduling, regardless of the AssumeInfiniteInventory flag or actual inventory maintenance in OMS.​

IBM Sterling OMS currently supports backordering only when the Ship Node is marked as dirty and the AssumeInfiniteInventory flag is either set to 'N' or null.​ In this setup, if the inventory is not maintained and AssumeInfiniteInventory = Y, the ...
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Capacity assessment of ITXA Rest Server

We are developing ITX maps that will access ITXA codelist for several fields mapping. Below are the expected scenarios: 1. There will be 100s of ITX maps to be developed to access ITXA codelist 2. Each map can access several times in a single exec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Return Order Invoice should not automatically reduce the LineCharge(DISCOUNT). If it is more than LineTotalWithoutTax but equals to LineTotalWithTax

Scenario: A Sales order is Created-Scheduled-Releases-Shipped-Invoiced(Either Order or Shipment Invoicing), Item theft reported, Customer care gave entire line total as a discount. Later item was identified at a Carrier location, and processed as ...
about 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration