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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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Fix the migration of envelopes from Sterling B2B Integrator and ITXA

When we export envelope from SI and import to ITXA, we are missing some configuration. Please see the word document attached. I am also attaching XML export file where you can find the UNH_DEFAULT_OUT envelope.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Report availability at the Segment level.

Currently the monitorItemAvailability API and all RTAM capabilities report inventory at the node and item level, to some degree including tag information. The RTAM information doesn't have any references to segment. An example usage of segmentatio...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

ITXA - Create 999 when there an error in the ST segment

Create 999 when there an error in the ST segment. Currently when there is an error in ST segment, transactions are not processed further and information required for 999 ACK generation is not passed. This creates a scenario where there is not vali...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Templatize field configuration settings in Order Hub and apply to multiple users

In Order Hub, users can view to display only the relevant attributes by modifying the field configurations in almost every screen. While this feature is very useful, every user needs to be perform this activity once initially. When there are a lar...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Show more detail, on progress bar, when using IIM to upgrade B2Bi

Upgrading B2Bi v6.0 to v6.1 took almost two hours. For the majority of that time, IIM's progress bar sat at (about) 60%. It would be helpful to see what it's doing or even update the progress bar more frequently.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Functionality to test profiles

We need some method to test a configured SEAS engine before integrating it with the rest of our environment. Currently we can only test it by pointing SSP to the new engine and attempting to log in. This means that we can't test the SEAS config in...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Global Mailbox's Cassandra and ZooKeeper's SLES support

Having the ability to install CAS and ZK on SLES, avoiding mixed environments on existing installations (SLES for B2Bi and RHEL for CAS/ZK)
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Future consideration

EBICS Server / Client support of xml structures without ds: prefixes

As of now EBICS Server and Client is not able to parse XML structures without ds prefixes in some places, so the parses explicitly needs those. Where as the XML itself is valid against the XSD of the EBICS order types. We need to have the EBICS ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Planned for future release

GCM mode for SFTP

We are seeing increased reluctance from partner organisations to trust CBC mode, due to OpenSSH's withdrawal of support for this mode by default. This leaves Secure Proxy with only CTR mode encryption as a widely accepted option. To ensure that we...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release