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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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Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

getProperty to be able to decrypt database managed properties

If we enable property encryption by setting up the yfs.propertyencrypter.class property property encryption works only for file based properties. E.g. properties kept in the yfs.properties and yfs.properties_<module id>_ext files or customer...
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 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
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Functionality already exists

Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action

The Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action to perform user customized actions like Rest API to push the partner details to customer LDAP or customer custom tables for auditing or other purposes. As SSO implementation is getting int...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

Partner invitation should identify the duplicates and warn the sponsor.

PEM should throw an warning saying that the user is already registered or Invitation sent to partner as soon as sponsor clicks on Invite button and the a partner is registered with that Email Id already. This avoid sending the duplicate invites to...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

ASN timeliness issue corrective action during VAN outage

We recently had a Sterling VAN outage where all our ASNs were delayed to our Customers. This caused the timeliness issue and we received penalty. We can avoid it if either of below two solution is implemented in Inflight.1. Once a VAN outage is de...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Provide for quota-free import of in-store transactions ("take sale" / "cash and carry") for use in association with blind returns / refunds

Today, we may receive the return of an unit/sku which was purchased in-store (cash-and-carry, take sale. NOT an order...) to our distribution center, within a valid return window, with a request for a full refund to the original form of payment. B...
about 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Batch assignment of transactions (esp returns) for agent ownership, review

The idea is three part: 1) Provide UI to allow for manual bulk assignment of tasks to individual customer care agents for work-down. 2) Allow for direct assignment/ownership of transactions/shipments to a given customer care agent, regardless of t...
about 4 years ago in Call Center 2 Future consideration

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 ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Write Debug Traces to a Specific DD instead of Creating Dynamic Rnnnnnn DDs

If the process specific Debug Traces can be written to a specific DD or DDs instead of creating dynamic Rnnnnnn DDs, it could be SPINNED dynamically after the trace completion and it will not cause a usage exposure to system SPOOL.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration