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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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Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Need a way to select multiple envelopes or maps and delete them all at once

It is very tedious to delete batches of envelopes or maps since you have to select each one, delete it, and then repeat with all the rest. There should be a way to select batches of them similar to how the export resources works and then delete th...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Oversell as product feature

Business if expecting following capability : 1. Ability to sell beyond available quantity. 2. Ability to define quantity to be sold beyond available Qty, as a percentage or unit in the catalog hierarchy 3. Ability to configure, calculation of over...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Not under consideration

Change selector page from number to dropdown box while navigating multiple records

Change the page selector from 1,2,3...100 to dropdown box 1-10, 11-20,etc.It is easier to select directly from the dropdown box, instead of going to page 10 and then few more, since not all pages are displayed.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Call Center Dark Mode

We would like the new call center to have a dark mode as it will create more contrast from the text on the screen and therefore allow some users to better view the program. This will create more accessibility for some users with vision issues.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 8 Not under consideration

Product xlsx template import : beeing able to specify tag records

On transparent Supply, beeing able to specif the tags to import ( ‘category’ for instance) when using Product data load through the XLSX file import.
7 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 3 Not under consideration

Feature to close bulk PEM Portal and Provisioner Activities

Currently, each activity or rollout has to be manually and separately closed. During development, Unit Testing, and UAT cycles lots of activities are created. There should be a way in PEM to bulk close Portal and Provisioner activities based on fi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Option to exclude MAILBOX messages from PurgeAll.sh

We run SI as stateless, but use MAILBOX for B2B communication. We clean up SI once every quarter to improve the performance / response time. The clean up process becomes cumbersome because we have to make sure all MAILBOX messages are backed up un...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

I would like to see control center monitor use active directory as an authenticator vs just SQL authentication when connecting to a MSSQL database

For security reasons we don't use SQL Authentication for local accounts. We use domain service accounts. We would like to see the CC adopt this option for authentication.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Claim Level Rejction

ITX-I-210 was an enhancement to claim level rejection to change from looking at only CLM01 to look at the entire CLM segment when checking for duplicates. This enhance was released in 10.2.1. We have found that we are still having issues with enti...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 4 Not under consideration