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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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Porduct scan is not allowed by product id for the orders having products with same item id and multiple UOMs. It is applicable on all scans in store application.

We have a Retail customer whose catalog allows multiple items created with same item id but different UOMs (EACH, CASE). When order products are scanned by using item id, it returns two items and error pops out saying multiple items found for ente...
over 6 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Future consideration

Capability to integrate SaaS logging mechanism with 3rd Party applications e.g Splunk

IBM SaaS has an out-of-the-box capability for monitoring and alerting. This information is surfaced in the form of Gray logs within the platform however there is no option available to integrate & exchange this information with other third-par...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

XMLjsonTransformer for conversion xml to json with array

The conversion xmlToJson generate a file with different tag type when the xml have an array with only one element
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Provide a way to deploy database changes such as adding a new field ahead of the full deployment.

Due to it taking an extra hour about for the DB entity updates and the required re-org activity a deployment that adds a new field takes longer than a normal deployment. Due to this want to be able to run it separately just like the on-prem versio...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Provide "replace/override" capabilities when using the CDConfig Tool for Map.cfg and Usr.cfg import

Currently the Connect:Direct CDConfig tool does NOT support the "replace/override" functionality when importing Netmap or User entries. It currently will update existing Initparms, but for some reason it doesn't update existing Netmap or User entr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

External Schedulers (TWS/Tidal) trigger business process capability in Sterling B2B Integrator

Sterling B2B integrator is tightly coupled with internal schedulers for triggering business process. This is creating a bottleneck for few business requirements which has dependency on external schedulers like TWS,Tidal.. Need capability in Sterli...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Exclude set periods from the Movement and Forecast Usage calculation due to strike or curtailment

Asset Intensive companies tend to have unionized labor forces that can go "on strike" for a number of months at a time. The usage during these strike periods tends to be considerably curtailed or non-existent. The impact of a 4-6 months-long strik...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enhance PGP failure report on Inflight

In case of any PGP encryption or decryption errors, Currently, we are seeing zero byte output in case of PGP issues and failing at subsequent translation steps. But errored report is not indicating about issues in the PGP step. This request is to ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration