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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...
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...

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Support for IV/SIP metrics from OMoC and external integrations

Currently, clients in OMoC are required to raise requests for monitoring data via a PMR. Instead clients should be able to see how their tenant is performing as well as OMS and external integrations towards performance towards IV / SIP
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 1

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Replication Statistics For Global Mailbox

Global Mailbox should be able to out-of-the-box provide specific details on replication between DCs. I should be able to easily find out baseline statistics for replication time between servers. I should be able to see counts for how many files ar...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 6 Functionality already exists

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 5 Future consideration

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service for communication between cross account for S3 bucket. This is private S3 bucket.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Multiarch DTK support for mac M1 users running OMoC projects

KC currently points towards mac support however this doesn't cover M1/M2 chip architecture with OMoCDTK needs to be enhance to support latest chipset.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

In-Flight Multi-file download button

This will effect all front-line support, mapping and any other support agents using In-flight. Right now, in order to download all files attached to a transmission, the agents have to manually download one by one. If it's possible, adding a downlo...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Ensure failover detection ping from SSP PS can be recognized as such in B2B

These pings are causing literally thousands of errors in our C:D logs on B2B every hour - as the C:D server adapter can see the pings hitting the port but recognizes that they are not valid C:D sessions. A recent health check performed by IBM/Sabr...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Provide option in configuration to set to OOB where OOB recommendations are greater than standard configured Service Level configurations.

This would provide greater availability while saving on purchasing costs, etc.
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration