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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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Need to know length of salt for passwords and preferably configure it

As customers tighten their security policies, some are developing or already have requirements that the length of salt applied to a password must be a minimum number of characters. There is no current way to determine this or change it within B2B ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Enhance data export process to support cloud storage

As per the current design, the export file is directly written onto the SFTP server also it's possible that incomplete files can be read by the consumer process. because this is implemented on SFTP there is no inherent event that can trigger a con...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Be able to call/use password exit routine with locally installed Aim Client.

Currently the Windows Exit routine on v6.2.0.4 uses Rest API to connect to cyberark. We would like to see the exit routine being able to call a locally installed claim client to retrieve the password.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Implement config or variable to enforce DGADBATC to use specific tcp stack in batch

We're using batch utility DGADBATC in a multiple tcpip stack(cinet) environment and would like to have a parm variable or other config option to specify the utility to utilize specific tcpip stack. The standard options like : //CEEOPTS DD * ENVAR(...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Add support for a callback to a custom login page in Store Engagement to support users that have timed out on their login session

In conjunction with https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/STORE-I-49, support the ability to have a callback URL in the case where a deeplink is called. It's possible that the deeplink is initiated AFTER a user's store engagement login ses...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow page refresh on any page within Store Engagement

If you perform a page refresh via the browser or code, it loads the default Store Engagement page and you lose the view of where you were. It would be useful to allow a page refresh within any page of Store Engagement to reload the current context...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Not under consideration

CAPTCHA implementation for SFG UI Interface

One of our Customer (STATE BANK OF INDIA) raised the below security issue. They are migrating their SFTP partner to Sterling File Gateway. They have requested to have CAPTCHA option when partners uploading files via the SFG UI. Their requirement i...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Inactivity user account control

Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 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