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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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Need Additional Columns in Inflight Trading Partner Activity Report

The additional Columns in Inflight Activity Report ( Data Received and Data Sent Date-time stamp ) will help Clients (any SCBN clients)to generate more detailed reports. For instance, it will help them determine the time taken for data (i.e. ORDER...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

When Events are producing using Kafka adapter need acknowledgement as response.

When Events are produced using Kafka adapter needs acknowledgement like the respective offset number and partition number in Kafka broker.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release

Enable tasks in MRO IO that use to be performed by BEN-BOT

Enabling the tasks to be performed within the product would assist in training as knowledge of other tools would not be required. Also the expressions required to query/run tasks can be managed by the tool.Such tasks include: list of users current...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Split Shipment report

Split Shipment reason code: Split due to inventory, capacity, nodes, etc.. Allows the optimzer to give a reason for the split that allows the Business to identify other issues. Split due to distance, speed, inventory, capacity, etc..
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

PGP UnPackage service to identify if the file was encrypted or signed only

When a signed file is process in Filegateway and with PGP preference set (decryption,sign verification On )PGP UnPackage service does not provide error to state that the file was only signed and not able to decrypt. The PGP UnPackage service compl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Alerts Notification capability to customers / Support in PGP Self Service

Currently SCBN is providing self service provision through ConfigHub so that Customer can perform activities on their own with out depending on the IBM Support teams. Recently PGP key were migrated to ConfigHub where customers and support can manm...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Planned for future release