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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 the ability to delete expired Secure+ certificates

When there are several hundred servers with expired certificates, it's extremely time consuming to log into each individual C:D node to manually deleted the certificate. The ability to delete old/expired certificates from Control Center will simpl...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Update Get Partner API to Include UserId as Input

Since you are not allowed to add emails across two accounts, it would be good if you could check if an email is associated with any partner already. The Get Partner API does not allow you to search by userid as an input. Adding userid as a input w...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Build and Deploy only the war needed + Build script per Env

IDEA-1: Todays it is not possible to build only selected war of the application that requires rebuild. Every time whole ear is built with all the wars which takes quite a time. It would be great if user can select the required war to be rebuild an...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

ISCCSDEV war in QA and Staging +

IDEA-1 It would be great to have flexibility of deploying ISCCSDEV war in the IBM Cloud. When customer was on PREM - the build was controlled at customer end and deploying ISCCSDEV war at higher environment (QA,Staging) was always a saver to debug...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Not under consideration

Security Administration Report from SPOE administration

Using the ADMIN function to maintain entries in SPOE is basically performing security administration functions. In some environments auditors/regulators like to see who is performing administration and what changes they are making. Requesting that...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

PEPPOL AS2/AS4 flows: MDN should show up in Inflight Status event

In PEPPOL, why sending a file via AS2/AS4 to recipient AP via B2BAC. The Inflight entry is updated with Accepted event, but it doesn't show up the MDN copy which we received for the message. If MDN is visible, we can trace the errors in more faste...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

EBICS order type - automatically splitting and processing of SEPA containers

We have a requirement to split the SEPA XML containers for customers from Ebics order payload file and process them individually
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Redeliver undelivered messages that are NOT covered by the Retry Policy mechanism

Experience operating a B2B Advanced Communications/ IBM MQ / Sterling Business Integrator ebms AS4 gateway has shown that there are many ways in which outbound messages can fail. Relatively few of these are covered by the Retry policy mechanism bu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Freeze/Fix Column names on Comparison Matrix

In the Comparison Matrix Widget, when users Add certain columns to view in the matrix, when you scroll to the right, you loose visibility of what each row of information is. can the field names be fixed to the left side of the window pane so as th...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Move the 'Previous Item' and 'Item state' icon to the right hand side of the screen

I personally think it would be more useful to have the 'previous item' sitting next to the 'next item' rather than to the far left of the screen, especially as more companies are moving toward the wider single monitor. I find I'm constantly scanni...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration