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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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Lock manager for Codelists and Maps on SPE

By having this lock manager, Users who are updating the code-list or maps won't be able to access the same resource at the same time
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct. It is useful to have NDMPING on UNIX Connect:Direct to help CD Administrators to complete a validation test...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Set Partner Unique ID on Bulk Upload

With multi-config in place, it makes more sense to allow the partner unique ID to be set on original upload than within the activity itself. As this is the only searchable field besides partner key, adding the ability to set this upon upload would...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Stop/Start a particular instance of an Agent/Integration server

Hi Team, As a part of housekeeping activities we often come across scenarios where we need to do a restart of a Agent/Integration server. This restart could impact the processing of orders for a time being which could lead to business impact. To d...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Passwordless login in CDWS

Our connect-direct node is using a passwordless unix user for communicating with our partners node (snode). As of right now (v 6.0.0.3) the Connect:Direct WebServices GUI is requiring password in order to login on our node. There seems to be no wa...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

findInventory does not validate zip code length

For invalid zip codes which are 10 character long and first 6 characters are valid, findInventory returns valid results. instead it should throw error.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Inventory Visibility Service | APIs | Supply & Demand List APIs

IBM Inventory Visibility Service does not provides an API to GET all supply or demand data for an item from IBM Inventory Visibility Service in a single call (or each type), instead what is available today is you need to call per Ship Node. In our...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance. It helps in avoiding outages

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance as a report. It helps in avoiding outages as well.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Need the ability to build the doc ear on the OMoC self serve tool

The OMoC self serve tool should also expose the ear build option to build and deploy the doc ear. This will allow for javadocs to be viewed through the dev and QA OMoC environments. Alternatively they should be publicly available like they are for...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Make the version info in the banner of the CLI commands (direct, ndmcli, ...) & GUIs consult a file in the install tree

We have received several security findings because CD gives version details that will allow hackers info on how to hack the software.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration