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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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Internal system required certificates prevention

We received the alert for expired certificate in email. We mistakenly removed the expired document encryption cert doccrypto2. After we worked with the support and we found out this cert is required and even it is expired. Our problem is if this i...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Bulk Edit from File if errored should display more details

When the file used in bulk edit from file throws error, it will be good to have more details on the error like- no unique match found for some specific rows or missing items etc. Currently, we have to try various scenarios to troubleshoot the prob...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

CDWS: certificate-based authentication to C:D nodes

currently in CDWS Web-GUI user-logon screen it's only possible to login to a C:D node by providing USER-ID + PWD. e.g. https://cdws:9443/cdws-ui/login certificate-based authentication is only available for REST clients according to the documentati...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

PGP Encryption/Decryption of a file with multiple recipients

Trading Partners may encrypt a file using multi-recipient encryption. For instance, they may encrypt a file with our Public PGP key as well as their own key. When we receive that file, we should be able to decrypt using our private key. Symantec a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Improve performance of the API to match that of previous versions.

There was a fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API “/CreateNewAS2Relationship”. In patches before the fix, the execution time for the API was ~5 seconds (untune...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

CreateNewAS2Relationship API - Request to disable adding additional user permissions to AS2 child mailboxes

There was a fix (IT40683) implemented in B2Bi v6.0.3.7 that was merged up through v6.1.1.3, then v6.1.2.2 impacting AS2 Relationships API “ /CreateNewAS2Relationship ”. In patches before the fix, the execution time for the API was ~5 seconds (untu...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration