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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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Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add Shipping Country, Shipping Address, and Shipping Zip Code columns to order search screen in OMS Call Center

Today when a user searches for records via the Order Search screen in Call Center, there is not a column to indicate the shipping country the record is tied to which makes it complicated for CSR users to quickly see where the order is from. This i...
over 1 year ago in Call Center 5 Not under consideration

include support for Hong Kong Interbank Clearing - CHATS - in the FinPay PLUS Package

Financial institutions are challenged to ensure validation of an evolving SWIFT rules. In this context, our customers are asking to incude support for CHATS in FinPay PLUS package
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Weak Cipher in client certificate

Hi IBM Team, One of our vendors are trying get connection to Sterling OMS using CURL command, they do have the certificate from DOM QA2 environment. However when they try to get the connection, they are getting below issue. $ openssl pkcs12 -info ...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Inactivity user account control

Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Provide Select all button to export resources from Config Center UI

Currently there is no single button to select all of the resources to be exported ( for example, envelopes/maps. We need to select page by page which is limited to 100.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic show/hide UI dialog elements

When trying to make a UI dialog more dynamic, we can currently use labels mapped to XSLT output to generate appropriate text for a partner. E.g. a screen which can show Test, Prod, or both Test and Prod server details in one dialog. Or Inbound, Ou...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration