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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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File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Reservation auto expiry to generate reservation events

Today if the reservation expired due to the set time , there is no availability event getting triggered for the same. Due to this, there is no visibility of actual availability being published .
about 1 month ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Allow Order Mod to Add New Line with Different Ship To Address When Simultaneously Cancelling Existing Line

Account Managers need to perform multiple modifications to an order at once. 1. Create order with 1 line item. Order line is in Created status. 2. Change order by cancelling line 1, adding line 2, and modify the Ship To Address with Override=Y Exp...
about 1 month ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review

Generated columns to be supported in Multi Format Logical files

We have a new Gentran configuration that uses an external SQL table in Application Definition. This can be helpful for us since we have a standard is creating a table. We have columns that have a "Generated Always" attribute and we encounter this ...

Track Changes to be available without user changes

The track changes widget is a great tool to see user changes and resulting system changes. This is very helpful for workflow after a data refresh to see what fields have changed that may impact the workflow submission. However, the track changes w...
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

The ability to monitor the time frame when no activity has happened.

There are times when Sterling File Gateway gets stuck and stops processing files but no alerts are generated etc. I would like to be able to monitor for no activity and when no activity has been detected in X time to be able to raise and alert/snm...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Need to build ITX 10.1.2.0 maps using Jenkins Pipeline and deploy in Linux environment

As part of our current process whenever we want to integrate ITX map with JAVA API, then we try to build any specific map in Design studio with specific environment like 'Build for specific platform' as 'Linux(INTEL processor). And move already bu...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Under review

InFlight PPID Business Field Filter Search

The Protocol Started >> Event Details Tab displays the PPID (Protocol Profile ID) for OB transactions in InFlight. It would be extremely useful if PPID was added to the 'Business Field' Search filter drop-down. This would allow Internal Supp...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 3 Planned for future release

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration