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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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Display partner communication details under Inflight event for Inbound flows.

Hi Team, Currently for inbound flows in Inflight, We can only see Protocol POD PID for the inbound flows. This request is to show Partner Communication details like Protocol PPID, Remote end point, Directory, Username details. These details will h...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

IDoc Control Record must contain tag EDI_DC40_U for Foreign Language to be in readable format within the SAP Environment

Changing the Control Record EDI_DC40__ (__ equals two trailing spaces) to EDI_DC40_U (one space and a U). Which when exported to a single file the output is okay, but the very first field in the record is 300, so the output = "EDI_DC40_U300" the f...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

get the Rollout ID to check which activity rolled out

Currently in the PEM: Activities > Monitoring page we can't see any reference of which activity is being Rolled out, we just need to reply upon the Rollout Name provided and can't really see way to know which activity with what version is used ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Future consideration

Dynamic Form Rendering and Dynamic Form Validation

Currently it is observed that in PEM screen there is no Dynamic Validation i.e. If there are multiple fields in one form and we need to show more/less fields depending upon the values user inputs in one of the field on same screen then it is not p...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Future consideration

Add user, role management to the BUC tool for users who are administrators

Allow a BUC authorized user with admin privelages to manage OMS users directly in BUC. BUC users should be able to see users by enterprise, team, group or role. Actions allowed should be to delete a user, create a user, or update a user's informat...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Future consideration

modifyItem Category should allow an action attribute of "manage"

In keeping with the purpose of the manageItem api, allow an action of "manage" on the action attribute on the Category node. This value should cause the association to be made if it does not exist and be ignored if it does exist. Furthermore, if t...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add successful security handshake information to the audit log

Add information to the SSP audit log regarding what was negotiated during a successful security handshake. For SSL/TLS this would include the protocol version(SSLv3.0, TLSv1.0, etc.), the cipher agreed upon and the client source IP. For SFTP/SSH t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

Email alerts for SEAS errors

Currently errors within SEAS cannot be detected without logging into the server and manually checking the SEAS logs. LDAP related failures (for example loss of connectivity to LDAP or expired password for the login we bind to LDAP with) are an exa...
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Reporting 1 Future consideration

IBM Countrol Center File transfer count threshold

I have a scenario as below.Generate alerts when an expected traffic (transaction count) from a customer is above or below the defined threshold. This threshold value should be configurable based on the partner and transaction type. This should als...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Request for a new option non_durable in ICC

The monitor target is IBM MQMFT. MQ application has a non-durable option, but that is not supported by ICC. It is a critical option so that ICC can set it to non-durable to avoid fill up the local file system on the MQ server due to a high volume ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration