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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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Edit Activity Definition to Already Rolled Out Version

Currently, once an activity is Marked as Final, and rolled out to partners it is not possible to update that activity definition to those rolled out customers. This can be quite troublesome when an activity contains an API error or another error w...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set time for automated emails

We would like to be able to choose when the automated reminders are sent out. Currently they are scheduled to be sent at midnight on the 7th and 9th nights. This time has proven very unsuccessful. People are not sitting at their desks and it gets ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Add comments when resolving an error

Currently when a partner receives an error, the sponsor goes into the activity and clicks "Resolve Error" for each activity. We would like to add a comments section for the "Resolve Error" function. This would allow us to include comments in the r...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Better Search Options for Directory

We would like to request that the search function for the directory includes all fields, i.e. User ID, Given Name and Surname. So when a letter or string is entered into the search bar all User ID's, Given Names, and Surnames which contain the let...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add Search Functionality to Attributes in Company Profile (Directory)

Under Directory>View (CompanyProfile)>Attributes>Edit, we would like to add a search function for attributes. Since there can be up to 100 attribute values for one attribute field, and they are not in any particular order (that we could d...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

REST API support to convert not invited users to registered PEM

We need new REST API marking the status from NotInvited to Registered for PEM users and this only sponsor admin can call. The requirements have been discussed with OM and Dev team (Jagadeesh)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Access to create new dashboards and configure alerts in Graylog

Creating new dashboards and option to configure custom alerts would provide a better solution overall in terms of analytical reporting and also would help in addressing issues at a faster rate.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Certify all components of Sterling suite to be use in virtual machines of clouds platforms like Azure, AWS, bluemix, etc.

Many customers are moving there infrastructure to the cloud, as a company that use computing services of IBM, the needs of our customers are essentials, so we need that the sterling suite must be compatible like on premise, with the O.S most use l...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

Passphrase Support for 100 Characters

RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases. Having all z/OS software/products also support that limit aligns them with the RACF limitations. This allows users even greater options at creating longer passphrases thus a more secure one.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration