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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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Ability to edit SLC name

Currently if a user wants to change the name of a SLC, it must be duplicated and then a new name can be given and the original slc can be deleted. The SLC name needs to be an editable field to allow updates.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to right click in order to comment and/or handle an alert

On Control Center 6.1.3 there are two different icons for commenting and handling alerts. The user currently has to select a check box and then click on the comment or handle icons for the alert. These comment and handle icons are static. Dependin...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Perform periodic scans of the information system and real-time scans of files from external sources as files are downloaded, opened or executed

External users can upload files to a mailbox. However, the files are not scanned for malicious content in mailbox. More Info - Perform periodic scans of the information system and real-time scans of files from external sources as files are downloa...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Enable users to see federated accounts

Currently, admins cannot easily see which users are federated and which are not. We have to actively reach out to IBM to see if the new user is federated then we can proceed with providing access. This process is long and labor intensive. Providin...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Extend sourcing audit feature to inquiry APIs like findInventory API

The request is to have sourcing audit enabled for findInventory API and this is our requirement as we do sourcing optimization even before order is created at the time of checkout.
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Trigger SupplyChange Event based on change in timestamp in addition to quantity change

Currently, IV triggers supply change event for an item only when there is an update to supply bucket quantity. To make the event updates robust, we need capability to generate the events on the change of timestamps.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Not under consideration

Need to be HSPD12 compliant

IRS is trying to get Sterling Connect:Direct 6.1 approved for usage in the IRS and it is being requested that we inquire as to why this product is not HSPD12 compliant?
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Implementing a new adapter to convert encoded XML string to process data.

I have a BP which converts a JSON to XML using xmljsontransformer. The XML is then saved in textual format in the process data ("Output" tag) and subsequently I have to convert it to XML always in the process data. If get the output from the file ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

The 'To Date' in the Issues and Receipts window ought to reflect the latest system update date, not today's date

It's not intuitive and has confused new users that this 'to date' shows today's date -- and doesn't as easily cement their understanding that system updates are monthly (where Delta updates aren't applied) especially when validating data with thei...
about 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Not under consideration

Sterling Integrator supports 16 characters for Connect Direct Node name and would need PEM as well to be supporting 16 characters.

when customers who are using SI wants to use PEM and they have nodes in SI with 16 characters but from PEM they are not able to. so it will help them to use pem if this is enabled in pem.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect