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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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Provide "null" as value when there is no record of the item

Currently, when we call IV asking for the availability of a SKU that does not exist (eg "Hobbit_250", IV returns "0" units available. But considering that IV has no record of this product, we want IV to return "Null" If there is a record of the pr...
2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

SFTP change setting authentication order (password, publickey) in the Two-factor authentication

In Sterling B2B Integrator both the SFTP Server and SFTP Client have Two-factor authentication (publickey, password) are configured to have the authentication sequence fixed as password authentication after public key authentication. However, for ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Password policy enforcement - minimum change password timeframe

To deny automated user's password change, add an additional parameter in password policy indicating the minimum number of days between a password is changed and the next time it can be changed.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Ability to create workflow based on the requester.

We have lots of different users of the tools with different roles and levels of authority. I would like to be able to create a workflow rule based on the requestor, so that, if that individual does not have the proper level of authority to make th...
5 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen is only deleting the entries of a single page instead of deleting all entries at a time. Make sure this button deletes all entries after giving a confirmation pop up at a time while clicking on Delete All

The customer wants to delete all the OLD entries in a single shot but the existing Delete all button under Envelopes->Documents awaiting enveloping screen only deletes the entries of a single page.
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Allowing command line editing of the CD File Agent configuration

There is a need within the Treasury to be able to script password changes to Connect Direct File Agents. Currently there is no documented way to accomplish this outside of using the GUI.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability to zero. We don't have API's to cleanup SIM, IV and node availability for existing stores. It is required in lower environments to cleanup the corrupted data due to testing. So that we can clean...
2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration