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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...
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...

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Display fulfillment overrides information in Node Availability API output

If a node is disabled for a given delivery method the availability will show 0 but there's no context of why it's 0. Displaying fulfillment overrides information in output will allow callers of the API to distinguish between not having available i...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Make (un)zip work in memory like excel adapter

We're working with a MQ-ACE-ITX setup. Being able to use (un)zip in memory would make it possible to work without temp-files to store the data. The excel-adapter has a switch to store/update stuff in memory, a similar way for (un)zip would be great.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Browser compatibility

Currently IBM Sterling OMS can be opened only through Internet Explorer, please make it compatible through Chrome, FireFox and all other browsers.
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Java 64 bit implementation for Application Manager

In my team, everybody having Java 32 bit even I also downgraded to 32 bit which can support 9.5 Console-> Configuration -> Launch Application Manager. We seen that if we use 64 bit, then Application Manager we not able to Launch. Once we mov...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to import multiple activities at once

PEM currently requires you to import a single activity at a time and then name it. When importing to a new environment, it will be helpful to be able to do one of three things: - When importing, have PEM taken the filename as the name of the activ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Future consideration