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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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Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

"searchCatalogIndex" api is not returning the results based on the partial term.

In next-gen IBM Sterling Call Center, while creating orders on add item screen, user has to enter atleast one word from the item name/description to get the output. But in most of the cases end users will not know the complete word or word may be ...
over 1 year ago in Call Center 0 Future consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Ability to search archived orders using newly added fields to index mapping

The successful archival of orders into the Order Service results in their deletion from the OMS. Businesses often have new requirements for additional search criteria to look up orders based on internal and customer needs. We have observed that on...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has limit of 3 IP addresses

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has a limit of only 3 IP addresses. Whereas ConnectDirect on linux or windows systems have larger limit and also altcomm parameter to specify alternate IP addresses. This limits HP NonStop connecting to a unix/wind...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

API to update Order Service Document status to null

Current Process: When an order is synchronized, the document status is set to null. Once the order is archived, its status in OS changes to archived. Issue: When an order is restored to Sterling from OS, and if Sterling is not integrated with OS f...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

We would like out of the box adapters for Sharepoint and SMB for file servers to allows file transfers to these endpoints

We move large volumes of files between servers and with some internal applications coming to the end of life they are turning to our MFT to transfer files from servers to sharepoint and file server (SMB). We would like to use built in adapter like...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG, we can achieve Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG by calling Hello world http adapter with hello world bp. Here is a chance of raising false alarm though application is up & running state, but HTTP adapter is in dow...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration