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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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Add DB2 11.5 support for Sterling Order Management 9.5

End of support for DB2 11.1 is 2022-04-30. We are currently running 9.5 on DB2 11.1.4.6 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition. We would like to upgrade the database to 11.5.6.0 or newer to remain supported.
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Same alternate UOMs to be used across same Item-Ids

Our company uses multiple UOMs for items. There are few alt UOMs which are maintained in an OOB table provided by IBM. When another item is being created with a different UOM in item table but same UOMs in alt table, the item creation failed, stat...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

snode.work.path parameter for IBM Connect:Direct for Windows

The "snode.work.path" parameter is available in IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX while it is not in IBM Connect:Direct for Windows. The idea is to have similar functionality in Windows version. It will allow to share SNODE work files among nodes in a l...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Basic Auth for Order Hub API calls to OMS

Currently our OnPrem OMS implementation works based of Basic Auth for external applications to connect with OMS. We are trying to enable Order Hub and we noticed that it is using JWT Auth for all API calls after initial login with Basic Auth. We a...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Import/Export REST API

Would like to integrate with other change management software to facilitate the export and import of resources between SI instances.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Provide Select all button to export resources from Config Center UI

Currently there is no single button to select all of the resources to be exported ( for example, envelopes/maps. We need to select page by page which is limited to 100.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Add user, role management to the BUC tool for users who are administrators

Allow a BUC authorized user with admin privelages to manage OMS users directly in BUC. BUC users should be able to see users by enterprise, team, group or role. Actions allowed should be to delete a user, create a user, or update a user's informat...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Future consideration

modifyItem Category should allow an action attribute of "manage"

In keeping with the purpose of the manageItem api, allow an action of "manage" on the action attribute on the Category node. This value should cause the association to be made if it does not exist and be ignored if it does exist. Furthermore, if t...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

EBICS Client is not listed in the protocol list when defining a B2Bi server.

Need to have EBICS Client monitoring, today, only EBICS Server is available. Almost all protocol are available for Cotrol Center monitoring except EBICS Client.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add "Session ID" for SEAS authentication attempts

In a high-traffic system it can be difficult to determine which log entries in the seas logs are related to a given authentication attempt. Currently we're forced to grep / search for the specific username /timeframe and then manually parse throug...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration