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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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New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

AS4 flow resiliency updates

Enhancements: Alerting mechanism to identify if the messages stuck in Kafka queue. Increase the number of retries to other Network if there are any network failure's causing the messages stuck in Kafka queue.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

BULK Attachment option to add in BULK Edit

At Present, while creating a bulk workflow -- we need to go into each item to add an attachment (e.g. if create a Bulk workflow of 100 materials, then we need to go into each material 100 times to add an attachment to have a future reference) It ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

AutoMerge feature for every new release

As mentioned by IBM previously that there would be an automerge feature for every release.Can we get an ETA for this as the process is time consuming
5 months ago in Store Engagement / Other 1 Not under consideration

More than one MQ pool for Sterling B2Bi adaptors

There is a bug in sterling B2Bi websphere mq pool code that means that if you have: multiple qm's (qm A, B, C) connected to the one sterling instance Then one adaptor cannot access one queue manager (e.g. qm A goes down) the whole MQ pool becomes ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas so we can identify what needs to be updated when a specific certificate expires and to validate all of the certificates have been renewed succe...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Planned for future release

New parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID in CD_SRVR.INI

Currently silent installation for Windows allows to provide CD_ADMIN_USERID in CD_SRVR.INI. The enhancement is to add new parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID that would allow to provide Group Name as CD Administrator Group.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists