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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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Customer requires complete encryption of all objects stored at rest in B2Bi/SFG database including trading partner information

Requirement has been stated by customer that all columns in the B2Bi/SFG database be encrypted, beyond what is hashed (passwords) and at-rest encryption (documents). This would include more recent sensitive information such as user names, IPs and ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ITXA support Bulk Update Codelist API without Version Number

Implementation-Version: 9.0.0.8(17)Build-Date: 20181003.0829 Case Number: TS001467199 Note: We are referring here Bulk Update Codelist API . Not the Update Codelist API We want to use the API from Sterling Business process The below is the ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 3 Not under consideration

Permit for quota-free import of in-store TAKE SALES (not orders) for one-stop shop in customer order history

Take sales (ie. walk-in spot purchases of in-store stock) are not a majority of overall enterprise-wide transactions, and the OMS is not expected to process them in any regard, ie settlement or fulfillment - This is all taken care of by the POS pl...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

GTIN based Inventory Availability and Scheduling in OMS CoC and Inventory Visibility

For our current client, inventory items are uniquely identified using UPCs(not to be confused with UPC in generic sense) and not SKUs, while the selling catalog identifies items using SKUs. These UPCs can change every year for the same item. For e...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Product improvement for reading pdf and ZPL data along with image format

Currently OMS Provides SFS Feature which helps to print data only if it is in image format. FedEx and UPS carrier system supports image data. But other carriers like postAT, DHL send response in pdf data or ZPL data form. IBM does not support thos...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Not under consideration

Support for calling scripts following completion of transfer

The sender of a file can specify a script to call once the file transfer is complete. There are customers that will not implement this. How about a way for the receiver to specify a script to call once the transfer is completed.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Scheduling agent triggers in different time zones (Other than UTC)

Currently the advances scheduling option for agents only takes time in UTC and triggers the same in UTC time zone. For different countries like US people want agents to be trig-erred in their time zone for example EST. EST has to be converted to U...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

certificate-based authentication support for CDAIJ and CDW

Many customers from banks need to change their OS users' password every 1 or 3 months for all OS according to their security regulation which means all applications or middleware using the old password must change at the same time. For customers, ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration