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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 update person info records after order has been released to warehouse

We have found various use cases where we need to be able to update the person info records on an order after the order has been released to the warehouse. Currently, the OMS platform only allows updates to the orders up until the order has been re...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 10 Not under consideration

export user list

We would like to be able to export the list of users at https://www.supply-chain.ibm.com/scbn-tools/user-list/listAll Right now we can only do a screenshot, but we would like a way to export that list on a schedule so we can reconcile with our use...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow individual customization for FTP mailboxes

Requesting control to customize individual mailboxes to flag inbound documents with multiple flags. Examples would be allowing customers to send a document to us via their FTP mailbox and it would flag documents based on customized file name, size...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

[Copy] 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 ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Restrict file types that can can be received by the SFTP server adaptor

it would add another layer to security
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Filtering out inactive items for inventory publish from IV service

Current IV service publishes different events for inventory updates. Throughout the year, there are multiple SKUs that become inactive and are not sold anymore. IBM OMS has an option to maintain active flag for an item, but the IV service doesn't ...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Identify Procurement assignments in YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE

YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE is implemented to validate the assignments with the external system (primarily inventory check with inventory source system). Is there any way to identify a line that is being procured from a vendor based on the fields in t...
almost 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under 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
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Functionality already exists

SIEM Integration with IBM Sterling Filegateway

SIEM is used to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from sterling applications, and users in real-time can detect issues whenever required, It seems sterling filegatway is not supported to integrate SIEM. we have raised PMR support ticket with IB...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Unable to receive email notifications after changing of payload repository as filesystem in SFTP Server Adapter

Email notifications are very critical in business use cases where customer are required to get notified when file transfer success/failure, system performance.
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists