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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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Allow utility scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh to run in non interactive mode

Currently I'm not able to run scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh in the non interactive mode. There is no option to pass the multiple input passphrases to those scripts. Those scripts will also error out if I...
over 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Mail MIME Service Attachment with Asian characters

Currently when using the Mail Mime Service with FSA to extract attachments, it seems FSA uses the "name" inside "ContentType*" as FileName. Unfortunately for "ContentTypes", Mail Mime Service doesn't seems to be able to read the "name" correctly w...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

ITXA - Operating System Specific jar files for the ITXA packs of all supported ITXA versions needs to be created and stored in IBM site, to share with the ITXA customers, during ITXA installation

For the packs installation in ITXA, we need a jar file. This jar file creation needs Windows OS, and the jar files should need to be OS-specific (either Linux, Windows, or AIX). In case any jar file contains another OS version, apart from the cust...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 3 Future consideration

Add multiple ICAP servers

Would like to have the option to add an alternate ICAP server for redundancy
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under 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

RTAM - Inventory Alerts - Save Suppy, Demand & Safety Stock inventory positions

As part of inventory publish, few systems are interested in ATP (supply - demand - safety stock), few other systems are in only (supply - demand) and few others are interested in only onhand supply. However, RTAM publishes only ATP and to calculat...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions. We wanted to be able to replay the files from completed file transfers interface.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Not under 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

Processes which are NOT OK should remain in TCQ

In most situations, where a process ends not OK, it is moved from TCQ to statistics, i. e. LSMG244I. Finding the original //SYSIN of the batchjob for repeating is difficult and time consuming. There should be a mechanism (exit, initparm, ...) to i...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow Pallet Receiving

The application currently supports receiving at the shipment level and container level, only leaving out pallet. The reason is not clear. Receiving should be allowed at all levels.
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration