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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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Ability to track parts transfers out from a site and to the receiving site

Useful for tracking the flow of transferred inventory, including dead and re-deployable inventory, and which site are supporting this process.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

Inflight search using PID as primary rather than advanced search - bypassing date constraints

I ask that Inflight search have a field for PID as a primary search parameter, rather than having to go into advanced search and select process ID for searching - also PID should be unique so it should bypass any date period set on the start and e...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

RPM for automated installation

We need a RPM installation package for Connect:Direct to simple deploy in our Cloud enviroment. The RPM must inform all dependencies for a automated instalation process (like Puppet).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Message received at M & M but Inflight has not received a response that it is processed.

A report which provides more indepth information on the the Invoice details, where the file is processed from IBM side to the client but an acknowledgment is not received from client. For Example, If an autoDx invoice is processed from Trading p...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

A search of documents using a specific field with multiple field option in Inflight

A search of documents using a specific field with multiple field option ( currently it is only one field and it is index id or reference field). Current deployed generic autoDx maps have made use of just one field. One of our client(Mahindra) is...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

System rejected materials due to refresh to the original settings from the initial submission

Materials that are not approved before the MRO IO system refresh, either Delta or monthly, are rejected and returned to the Items list in MRO IO in the base state that they were originally in prior to review by planners or maintenance personnel. T...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

publicly accessible system status page

Availability of a publicly accessible system status pages to provide transparency around service availability and performance for the SCBN products or other IBM products.
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration