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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...
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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security JDK modification to allow addition of ciphers for SI connecting to ldap

At the moment SI product wont allow it and for SDS (ldap) product remediation more strong ciphers has to be added with guidelines from CSO so intention was matching to all those ciphers on SI side. This would benefit everyone to matchup with secur...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Native support for DLP to manage sensible data

Customer would like to have in SSP a feature to connect with their DLP solution based on ICAP protocol to avoid that sensible data be sent outside of their organization without permission.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

Allow Override of STOP CD QUIESCE for C:D z/OS

When a Connect:Direct region is shut down with a STOP CD QUIESCE, the region will terminate when all processes stop, making it an ideal choice for a planned shutdown. However, once initiated, this cannot be aborted or converted to a quicker type o...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Provision to store Node Availability during release creation for future reference and insights on actual stock position used during allocation

Currently post release (during back-end fulfillment process), Sterling has no insights on the stock position for that item on the node during release creation. Hence it is difficult to reconcile or justify instances where Store and DCs have repo...
4 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling B2B Integrator and Sterling File Gateway APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Need a list of schedule timing for all active scheduled Business Process

We need a list of reporting consist of exact schedule for all active Business Process Schedule, currently need to look one by one, we have about 3000 Business Process therefore its hard to kept at looking one by one BP schedule for manageability
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

introduction of query parameter or new function for exact match search

when we try to find a specific user credential using its name and the partner it belongs to , the API performas a like search and returning multiple matches. Looks like, for the profileConfigName query parameter, this API is deviating from the sta...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Officially support EBICS v3.0.2

The EBICS org published a revised specification for v3.0 on June 27th 2022 to replace previous versions (3.0.0 and 3.0.1) with effect from December 30th 2022. All customers wanting to use EBICS v3 in the IBM EBICS Server and Client must be able to...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Adding new indexes to database for enhancing performance.

The current DB settings seems to be insufficient for production environment. The performance dramatically enhanced after adding them during DB analysis made by our DBA team. I have raised TS001613070, and IBM Support agreed to add these indexes bu...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Future consideration