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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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listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to C:D for UNIX client

FTP provides a generic feature of listing specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders to FTP client. But C:D can only realize this function by RUN TASK or RUN JOB invoking many shell scripts, which make clients' application complex. BOC...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add an Admin ID for CD UNIX Installations

Currently CD UNIX can be installed under another ID. However, during a particular step of the installation process, the root password is required. Can an administrative ID be added to the CD UNIX installation that has the appropriate access needed...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Reporting available for Secure+ data within Connect Direct 4.1x and 4.2x

I am being tasked with providing numbers on a monthly basis on how many remote nodes I have configured for Secure+ on each of my supported servers. I need to be able to detect in the nodes subdirectory which of the nodes are set up for Secure+ by ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

add HELP icon to the Sterling Connect:Direct applications that will direct the customer directly to the Support Request tool

support vets many customer complaints about the IBM.com website. If we add some direct links into the products the customer uses, like a SUPPORT TICKET link to the SR tool, this defuses customer hostility to the web site.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Being able to monitor and get alerted for external services failures

External Services Monitoring Example: Alert if OMS not able to connect with Vertex Agent Trigger Failures Alert if Agent Job trigger failed/Failure
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists

Being able to get alerted based on log file monitoring

It would help to view data similar to Kibana Based Dashboards and get alerts based on Error Codes & Rate of Error Codes.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 5 Not under consideration

MQ Monitoring

Ability to view contents of a Queue Number of messages/Queue Depth Oldest Message Ability to clear Bad data/Add for any Smoke test Receive Queue Depth Alerts (via pagerduty). Aging Messages Alerts Idle Time - No transactions in the queue in last o...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Not under consideration

Being able to get alerted through intelligent data-driven alerting mechanism

Provide us an ability to get alerted as part of data driven alerting. Examples No Orders not created in last one 20 Mins Low Volume of Shipments from DC Higher Fraud Hold Pending Orders Schedule Agent backlog High Configurable by Channel, Threshol...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Real Time - Order Processing Dashboard required

We would like to measure the below KPIs (and get alerted) Orders Flow by Selling Channel ( Web, Call Center, Store) By Hour, By Day, Trend Graph for Previous day vs Current Order Allocation Summary By Fulfillment Channel ( DC, Store, DropShip) By ...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Enabling customer override properties as -D argument

We would like to have option of enabling customer_override properties as -D argument for java application, it will allow apps to support different combinations for different environment. In todays world everyone wants to deploy same artifact accro...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration