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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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SSP Rest Monitoring

We would like to track the engine and detailed per engine adapter status through Rest. This data is available on the viewEngineStatusAllMonitor.jsp page when logging in through the browser but not through the current rest interface.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Steling Secure Proxy new feature request for password reset/forgot password.

System : SSPActor: User needing to change a forgot password. SSP currently does not support forgot password or password reset self service functionality. Need to add this feature on SSP Description: During the initial on boarding of a partner id w...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Monitor Traffic from SSP

Right now Control Center lacks the functionality to be able to monitor file transfer traffic within SSP.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Support for tag controlled inventory in Store/SIM

There are products that are unique to batch, lot, manufacture date, and other attributes that require tagged inventory control to identify a specific or subset of a product. For example, products like granite/stone slab countertops each have a uni...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Node level safety stock values considered when calculating Network level SS

This feature would allow retailers who already define safety stock at node level to more easily leverage the new IBM safety stock rules because the values they set at node level can automatically be considered to create a network level value
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Update Certificate File via REST API

The B2B REST API allows the user to delete, create, or update attributes (such as the name) of an HTTPS certificate on the system. However, it does not allow a user to update a certificate in place (the "Update from existing PKCS12 Certificate fil...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration