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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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WebMethods Database Configurator Connection to Oracle Autonomous Database with Wallet

The correct product (wM Database Configurator 10.15) is not listed in the Product. WebMethods Database Configurator can't connect to Oracle Cloud Autonomous Database with wallet as it currently does not support the use of native drivers (Oracle Th...
3 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

User challenge questions and challenge-response system needs to be modified

01. Answer to each challenge question must have at least three (3) characters. Application which implements challenge and response mechanism must enforce the minimum length of the response as 3 characters. STRIDE Threat Type(s) : Spoofing, Technic...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Please provide an option to retrieve or reset the admin password.

We require a solution to reset or recover the SSP CM admin password, which is essential for exporting and importing configurations across various environments.
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

retrieve the entitlement_mode for payloads and events records

When using the Trace API - Get Payload or Events - I do not get the information for attribute "entitlement_mode". This could be helpfull to check what entitlement mode is currently applied. This already works for Products, Locations.
7 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 4 Needs more information

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Information systems are not to allow users to compose challenge questions.

Challenge questions must be chosen from an EY-approved list. Information systems are not to allow users to compose challenge questions. During a challenge interaction, the challenge questions are to be selected at random by the information system ...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted

The user’s current password must be validated while changing challenge questions and response phrases.

The user’s current password must be validated while changing challenge questions and response phrases. Authentication is required for changing a user's challenge and response phrases.
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted

Description of available Analytics Data Sources

I would like to have available a 'cheat sheet' that describes what data all of the various Analytics Data Sources (Live Export Details, Snapshot Inventory History, etc.) include and what they are meant to capture. We are trying to encourage our us...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release