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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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Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future 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

Image Support

When uploading images currently, they are currently limited to the following formats: .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, and .bitmap There are additional image formats which would be helpful to support. SVG, TIF, PSD, EPS, AI, INDD, RAW Unlike older formats...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate/expose OpenAPI specifications for OMS APIs

This idea if implemented can be used by developers, ISVs and clients to refer to API documentation, usage and testing purposes to expedite development and testing purposes. Some of the applications used for system/ application integration like IBM...
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

SIGNON command could provide a parameter for the message file and process library

It is useful for the SIGNON command to provide additional CDz software file specification parameters like the NETMAP parameter. This allows a user to use the same JCL procedure but able to override DDs within the control cards of CDz's SYSIN witho...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support LDAP authentication for standalone application manager

Currently OnPrem Standalone application manager supports local authentication , however we need to support LDAP authentication for security reasons.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

CIphers configuration for Connect Direct Web Services

Connect Direct Web Services configuration should allow to limit list of allowed ciphers. Similar functionality is present for protocol configuration under "server.ssl.enabled-protocols”. Support for similar parameter e.g. "server.ssl.enabled-ciphe...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

ITXA logs for components change

we would like to monitor the changes in the system wheere we would like to get the report when any component changed deleted or updated in system all components maps codelist envelops etc . please help us with the same like whihc table will have t...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Historic import data retrieval

Users should be able to download 12 months of imported data in zip format.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

PU failure rollback and alert

Upon PU failure the system should revert back to a useable state and notifications sent to users who are subscribed to that alert type (see https://ibm-ai-apps.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/MRO-I-112). Ideally this would also automatically create a support ...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release