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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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support filesizes greater than 2GB in the http adapters

the http and related adapters are currently limited to 2 GB file sizes. As communication across https becomes more common, especially in the big data arena, the adapters need to support > 2GB. This is a limitation of java 1.7, thus a move to ja...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Sterling B2B Integrator full support for SQL Server 2016 'Always On' features

The database that supports B2B Integrator needs to be highly available - and the facility which supports high availability in SQL Server 2016 is the "Always-On-Availability-Group" feature. B2BI needs to support this to provide a highly available p...

Allow greater flexibility when amending Secure+ parms

Having a process which is reliant on a person logging onto an ISPF panel to update something like a TLS setting is no longer tenable in a modern IT environment. Automation and self service are the order of the day and the way Secure+ updates are b...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Delivered

Please incorporate FlowVariables in x/OS Command Server

We have been asking for this for years and years. Finally learned about it for version 10. Learned how to code it, coded it in about 20 minutes. I then ported the map to z/OS where we run this map, and it did not work. Support advised that FlowVar...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered

Online documentation should be relevant for latest release and contain more useful details

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over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Delivered

Need to monitor the progress of IV APIs

The current IV has no way of monitoring the progress of APIs and we need better visibility and access to logs. Also, we need an API to query all the items sync'd up per store / all stores.
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

APi templates to allow us to adjust the EXTN fields in the tables

We went in and adjusted the APi templates to allow us to adjust the EXTN fields in the tables, However the manageChargeCategory API will not allow us to change the extn fields.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered

Make fields with regard to password expiry customizable

FORGOT_PASSWORD_EXPIRY_DURATION_DAYS RESET_PASSWORD_EXPIRY_DURATION_HOURS These values are set to very high values by default and cannot be customized in our cloud instance. We'd like to see this changed. It's a dedicated instance of PE...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Delivered

Have statistics Records (CT and maybe others) indicate the true node a transfer was sent to when ALT.NODEDEF is coded in the Netmap for a node

Currently if two nodes are defined NODEA and NODEB in the netmap and NODEA has ALT.NODEDEF=NODEB coded, if NODEA can not sent to its primary IP address coded then the file will be sent to the IP address coded on NODEB. The issue is that the CT sta...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 7 Delivered

Denied Workflow Corrections directly from within Workflow list view

Frequently when a workflow change is denied, the approver has asked for something to be changed or corrected on the record being submitted (set size is incorrect, business Impact is incorrect, reorder levels adjusted to a lower number, etc). The s...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Delivered