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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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Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Needs more information

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Under review

Order Hub is not having a screen to view/edit reservation details like application console.

Order Hub does not have a screen to view/modify the reservation details for GIV users like application console. This can be viewed from inventory summary screen in application console by clicking on the 'Reservations' icon – Request for enhancemen...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Order Hub node inventory details not able to show the supply vs demand breakup on a node

Node tabs which shows node inventory details does not show any distribution of Supply vs Demand on that individual node like what we see in console – It was present in Order Hub before but taken out as part of latest fix pack – Request for enhance...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Config Hub - Protocol - Connection Description feature to Company/Trading Partner resources/connections view under the each Customer.

Customers/B2Bi SaaS wants to see more information like connection description along with connection name under the Connections section in Config Hub for each Config Hub Customer. Currently we have the only fields/columns available with the names a...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Needs more information

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has limit of 3 IP addresses

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has a limit of only 3 IP addresses. Whereas ConnectDirect on linux or windows systems have larger limit and also altcomm parameter to specify alternate IP addresses. This limits HP NonStop connecting to a unix/wind...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Add TLS1.3 Support for IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop

TLS1.3 is currently adopted most secure way of secure communication and IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop is still not supporting TLS1.3.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Under review

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information