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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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Provide a dashboard view to have detailed SIM UI up time statuses

Provide a dashboard view to have detailed SIM UI up time statuses
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 11 Planned for future release

CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Microsoft Deprecating IMAP and Basic Auth - Oct/2022

Microsoft is deprecating the IMAP and Basic Auth authentication for mailboxes from Oct/2022 - please see the link below. As of now the only options to connect to Office 365 mailboxes is using IMAP and Basic Auth - but that will not be available es...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Option for formatting XML in File Details Tab

Input and output documents in XML are difficult to read when not formatted. Current options allow you to specify a character and break on it, but the closest you can come to formatting XML is using the > character and that doesn't put element n...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Role based access to unprovision of codelist facility

functionality where unprovision button is only available to first/primary sponsor admin.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

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