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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 DB2 11.5 support for Sterling Order Management 9.5

End of support for DB2 11.1 is 2022-04-30. We are currently running 9.5 on DB2 11.1.4.6 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition. We would like to upgrade the database to 11.5.6.0 or newer to remain supported.
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Same alternate UOMs to be used across same Item-Ids

Our company uses multiple UOMs for items. There are few alt UOMs which are maintained in an OOB table provided by IBM. When another item is being created with a different UOM in item table but same UOMs in alt table, the item creation failed, stat...
over 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Selecting Active Directory Group for authentication

Instead of selecting each user from LDAP and give access. If we have option to select the Active Directory Group(low_pre_access_group, high_pre_access_group) from LDAP and assign to access. It will be helpful and reduce task of adding every new us...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 3 Needs more information

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center: Add an overwrite and delete option for Secure Plus trust/keystore cert locations

When SCC is in use for configuring Secure Plus certificates on a CD node the only option available is import. If the certs expire or an import was incorrectly completed there are no options to overwrite or delete the certificate information in SCC...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Adding Business Alias option for searching the Logs in inflight

Inflight is used to search the logs through Date/Time stamp and Pattern. This search displays the logs across all the Business Alias and gives the many results. If we have an option to filter the logs based on Business Alias, then the results can ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

The idea is to change the password encryption algorithm in the dark data service.

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almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Expand MapName Field

Expanding the map name field will help us us maintain standard Map naming convention with proper description of the map function and the associated standards. The current limitation of 32 bytes is not sufficient. Other mapping tools like Sterling ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Configuring alerts for netmap and secure plus changes

Configuring alerts for netmap node creation, deletion, Initialization Parameter etc.. And secure plus node creation, deletion, key updation.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Documentation 2 Functionality already exists