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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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Alerts Notification capability to customers / Support in PGP Self Service

Currently SCBN is providing self service provision through ConfigHub so that Customer can perform activities on their own with out depending on the IBM Support teams. Recently PGP key were migrated to ConfigHub where customers and support can manm...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Planned for future release

Having mode T or O dynamic in APIs through CXTransferSubmit in CX Unix (linux) for Societe Generale

Due to a concentration project at Societe Generale where all transfers are going to be concentrated in a Central Hub (SFG + CX) we faced an issue regarding the mixed of partners defined in mode T and Partners in mode O. In order to not multiply th...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

About email notifications and body

Issue 1: For Example there is a partner called ABCBank and we have three child accounts(ABCBank-1, ABCBank-2, ABCBank3) in Sterling Integrator as well as PEM. And we have to rollout a activity for ABCBank and we would like to reset a password for ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 5 Planned for future release

Can Supply Type information be available in FindInventory Output

As part of one of our implementation we using new Supply_Type FIRM_PLAN for pre order future inventory . Frontend system will be calling Availability service to get availability . And we have a scenario where Item as both Onhand and Future Quantit...
about 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Sorting of products based on Availability during a call center product search

Call center currently displays list of products independent of items are available or not. When CSR are having a conversation with customer, they need to spend lot of time to identify products with inventory. There should be a mechanism to either ...
over 4 years ago in Call Center 0 Planned for future release

Reporting Capabilities in PEM

It would be really helpful if PEM is having reporting capabilities on Activities and Partners. This would be really helpful for business.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for SSP administrator interfaces using local authentication are not allow enough password security controls: Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are minimal and don’t comply with the sec...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Allow utility scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh to run in non interactive mode

Currently I'm not able to run scripts like changepassphrase.sh, SEASCipherConfigTool.sh, seasRestAPI.sh in the non interactive mode. There is no option to pass the multiple input passphrases to those scripts. Those scripts will also error out if I...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release