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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 for native (non-UE) configurability to record discounts/promotions at unit level, to align with most omni-retailers best practices in refunding multi-unit orders

First, please see: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/269415 In IBMs response, the Sterling team states that it is "as designed" that a customer would receive an entire unit's refund upon the return of the first item of a multi-line order, wit...
over 3 years ago in Call Center 1 Future consideration

EBICS HAC Status Reporting Visible in ICC

EBICS HAC Status Reporting should be visible in ICC, for this there need to be change in the B2Bi so ICC can pull that data as well.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic routing of File Transfers

Admins of PCM would benefit from this because it could shorten the file transfer build time. A dynamic dataflow would allow an admin to setup one main transfer that allowed any file dropped into that mailbox to be routed to any outbound partner ba...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Metrics API enhancement

We are attempting to add metrics data to an internal application for monitoring the sterling environment and currently the REST api does not contain any endpoints that would allow us access to the data tha currently backs the Active Alerts, Transf...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

snode.work.path parameter for IBM Connect:Direct for Windows

The "snode.work.path" parameter is available in IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX while it is not in IBM Connect:Direct for Windows. The idea is to have similar functionality in Windows version. It will allow to share SNODE work files among nodes in a l...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add flag to ManageItem to trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV

When child items are created by manageItem, it would be really useful to be able to automatically trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV via a flag so that the child item is associated with the model item in IV - so that the IV Availability Product ...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Be able to add tracking number when creating return

In the old UI we created an enhancement that allowed users to add tracking numbers in the Call Center UI when creating a return. In the new UI we would like for this to be an OOTB option
over 3 years ago in Call Center 1 Future consideration