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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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BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

JSON Layout Generator

As part of Map Change team we receive requests for JSON map development. JSON maps layout will be differ from typical maps as the expected output is human readable text to store and transmit data objects consisting of attribute–value pairs and arr...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Limit User permissions in MyFiles UI

Would like to enhance myFilesUI to restrict user functionality. For example restricting their ability to delete files from the Mailbox.
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Report on the Ciphers and MAC algorithms and TLS versions in use for all trading partner connections

In order to be able to remove deprecated ciphers and algorithms, it is handy to know if any existing trading partners are utilising these to (a) determine impact of removal, and (b) identify and provide correspondence to affected partners when we ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
6 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Handling new zipcodes in OMS

Handling new zipcodes in OMS. Currently OMS does not have any logic to allocate/identify orders from a Zipcode which is not available on the DB. Copuntries update the list of postal codes every year and more zip codes will be added year on year. C...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

WEBHOOK IMPLEMENTATION

RS Components/Electro Components trading partner PostNord (SenderID 0000550273) have informed us of a change they are making to the way they provide parcel tracking data. They have provided the note below, as well as the attached documentation. In...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Under review