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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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Protection/Unprotect from Bulk

During project client had "protected" one field for hundreds of items - which when they came over to MRO - they are still "Protected", but now they want to remove the protection and asking if this can be done via the bulk features. It was noted th...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Need to know length of salt for passwords and preferably configure it

As customers tighten their security policies, some are developing or already have requirements that the length of salt applied to a password must be a minimum number of characters. There is no current way to determine this or change it within B2B ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

API response status of eInvoice in Peppol

Currently, if there is an error while sending eInvoices, SCBN will send a notification email to the main partner. The partner has to manually update the status of the eInvoice or inform the customer on the status via offline means such as a phone ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Native Variables in Connect:Direct Unix

We currently use some of the native Connect variables in: Windows for Windows, Windows for Mainframe, and Windows for UNIX. However, we need to use these same variables from a UNIX server and we are having problems. Examples:% SUBDATE1 and% SUBTIM...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the forward proxy

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 4 Future consideration

SQS Client adapter to be extended for put

Currently the SQS adapter can only read from SQS. It should also be possible to put messages to SQS and to be able to use this service within BP
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

In Inflight - Trading Relationships Report having the Orphan records or duplicate of each correct record

In Inflight - Trading Relationships Report Incorrectly Showing Unknown instead of correct values
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Add support for a callback to a custom login page in Store Engagement to support users that have timed out on their login session

In conjunction with https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/STORE-I-49, support the ability to have a callback URL in the case where a deeplink is called. It's possible that the deeplink is initiated AFTER a user's store engagement login ses...
almost 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support for Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) for deployment on AWS

Customers are asking if B2BI/SFG can be deployed on Amazon Linux 2 on AWS.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

A new report in Transparent Supply UI that reflects the number of events sent to the platform per year and month of the EventTime and Country of the Facility that uploads it.

We need a report in the Transparent Supply Dashboard in an “Event Uploads” style that reflects the number of events sent to the platform per year and month of the EventTime (not the time it was uploaded) and Country of the Facility that uploads it...
over 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration