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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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CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Enabling support for FF0D in ITX for ibm-930 code page

When we receive FF0D character in request to Datapower service, ITX map is unable to handle in ibm-930 code page. Can you please enhance ibm-930 code page to handle FF0D character in ITX maps.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Implement the use of LDAP without the need of IBM External Authentication Server

In order to implement the use of LDAP for authenticating to Control Center, it is a requirement to use IBM External Authentication Server. There should be a way of doing so without implementing another product that has be installed, configured, an...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

[Copy] Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Restrict file types that can can be received by the SFTP server adaptor

it would add another layer to security
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Filtering out inactive items for inventory publish from IV service

Current IV service publishes different events for inventory updates. Throughout the year, there are multiple SKUs that become inactive and are not sold anymore. IBM OMS has an option to maintain active flag for an item, but the IV service doesn't ...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Add details of the shipment in the alert raised for Close Manifest Failure

No description provided
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Security enhancement in GUI: would it be possible to add GUI session timeout parameter which would lock session or log off user ?

this request came from security team/audit, they believe it would improve product security
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Functionality already exists