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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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Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Fix/Update Schedule inclusion timeframes to allow 12am/00:00

The current error message in the schedule exclusion section suggests that the 12:00am time frame should be used. Its not clear to the users and admins that the exclusion will not run at midnight. Updating the error message or allowing 12:00 would ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

File Extraction Notification

Within the global mailbox administrator, we can see in the extraction criteria tab of mailbox explorer the date/time that a file is extracted either by file delivery from SFG/GM or by the client pulling the file from the mailbox. Our issue is that...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 4 Future consideration

Embed watsonx into IBM Sterling OMS to enable an AI foundation model that looks at all the OMS/Inventory data to provide a streamlined question/response dialog similar to chatbots and/or ChatGPC

The IBM Sterling OMS is a perfect solution to embed the watsonx solution. Building out a foundation model leveraging the OMS and Inventory data set would allow us to show a progressive approach to interact with the solution across various OMS pers...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

URL to access BP Logs and other resources

Current B2B web interface does not allow URLs links to BP logs and other resources. There is no way to send a link that someone can click-on to view a BP log/ BP Definition/ Envelope/CodeList. (As opposed to sending them the number and requiring t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Ability to firewall whitelist an IP range in Self Service Tool

Today's IT infrastructure is heavily reliant on Cloud based practices, SaaS which all comes with a dynamic IP range. OMoC also has to integrate with certain applications. Today, SST for next gen version of OMS does not allow us to whitelist an ip ...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Ability to see all trading partners associated with a specific map

to help facilitate massive EDI projects when changes are being made in your ERP.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Future consideration

Have the ability to see an inactive trading partner listing ie trading partners set up but no longer using.

to help drive electronic ordering initiatives in our organization.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Future consideration

DB query tool in OMoC

Need to be able to view/query tables and columns in a robust way and in real time
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Native PGP - Interface level compression setting

In other PGP software you can alter the compression algorithm. In the case of Native PGP, we can only change compression at a global level. Down the road, if a partner requires a certain compression algorithm other than the global one that’s set, ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration