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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...
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...

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Change wording of Close Activity dialog

When the dialog appears for closing an activity the options are "Close" and "Cancel". This is mildly confusing for the user, as usually "Close" means close the dialog. Also, the close button appears in different places (see attachment for further ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Automate overage tracking

Add the ability to automatically track overages for entitled partners. in MRM that will allow a customer to be able to be automatically billed for additional partners that exceed their entitlements.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Update Attribute via API Call

Would like to be able to update a user attribute through an API call. For example if attribute "Rollout" exists, would like to change value of "Rollout" from an API call outside of MRM (similar to how Bulk Upload works). This is something that may...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Add New User ID Variable for Partner Invitation Email Templates

Sponsors (e.g. US Bank) want to be able to include the User ID that the partner should be using when they register in the partner invitation email.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Remove "Business Role" verbiage from trading partner profile field

In a trading partner profile there is a field entitled "Business Role / Title". The use of the term "role" gets confused with the user role capabilities elsewhere in the tool. "Business role" should be removed and just leave "Title".
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

REST API hostname 50 chars restriction

IBM Partner Engagement Manager does not accept hostname for REST APIs more than 50 chars but there are REST API hostnames more than 50 chars even in IBM Cloud (bluemix) CloudantDB REST API with guid-id.bluemix.cloudant.com and hostnames can be up ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Functionality already exists

REST API support to convert not invited users to registered PEM

We need new REST API marking the status from NotInvited to Registered for PEM users and this only sponsor admin can call. The requirements have been discussed with OM and Dev team (Jagadeesh)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Single Sign On for PEM

Support Single Sign On for PEM to allow integration with identity management systems. This critical to comply with security requirements and verify user/partner identity. From a user experience, this is needed to provide a more seamless client/par...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Rejected partners can never be Accepted

Once a partner or user has been rejected they can never then be accepted using the same e-mail address. The product assumes that if someone is rejected they will forever be rejected. Also can not edit profile.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Not under consideration

PEM Cloud Application Outage Notification List

Currently, we have no way of knowing if there are PEM Cloud Application outages/issues. Having a outage email notification field will allow us to add a distribution list or a list of emails to contact us.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration