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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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Adding a disclaimer before access dashboard and mailbox interface

When a user insert his credential in login page to access Sterling Integrator dashboard or Mailbox Interface page, should read a customizable message about the confidentiality obligations accessing the System, before to be redirected to IBM Sterli...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enabling support for FF0D in ITX for ibm-930 code page

When we receive FF0D character in request to Datapower service, ITX map is unable to handle in ibm-930 code page. Can you please enhance ibm-930 code page to handle FF0D character in ITX maps.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Monitor SI schedules and Routing Rules in SCC

Currently SI related schedules and Routing rules does not get monitored in SCC. Some of the SI related schedules are very critical and important for Customer, if that can get disabled then file processing does not happened. Similarly if Routing ru...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Restrict file types that can can be received by the SFTP server adaptor

it would add another layer to security
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Maintain Price,Charge and Tax attributes for cancelled lines

When an order line is canceled all the price charge and tax attributes are zeroed out in OMS. We have a requirement in Data warehouse to pull all the data from OMS and determine the sale amount that was not converted . Currently DW has to go to a...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Implement the use of LDAP without the need of IBM External Authentication Server

In order to implement the use of LDAP for authenticating to Control Center, it is a requirement to use IBM External Authentication Server. There should be a way of doing so without implementing another product that has be installed, configured, an...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Order hub to include an order/shipment level attribute to filter the orders and shipments to be considered for workspace

Enterprises require to filter out certain orders/shipment where there are fulfillment manatgers resposinsible for a captergory of orders. The Orders and shipments are to have a filter attribiues that should be populated by implementation.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration