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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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Ability to define the priority for the Safety stock Rules based on business requirements

Currently, the priority for the Rule-based safety stock is assigned based on specific pre-defined criteria outlined in this document: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/order-management?topic=rules-safety-stock-rule-priority-list. Since this method is cl...
19 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Support OIDC/Oauth 2.0 in SSP

Modern authentication requirements need support for OIDC/Oauth 2.0 alongside the existing SAML 2.0 support. Please extend SSP to provide this flavor of access as well.
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Increase buffer size from 262144 to unlimited similar to SFG

Some of our clients when they try connecting through SSP they are facing error requested buffer size (1048576) is larger than max: 262144 When they connect directly to SFG they are able to send without any issue. We request to increase the buffer ...
21 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

Adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes

Please, consider adding additional objects synchronization between data centers to perform access to Global Mailboxes. The reason is because various objects are needed to allow access to the customers to the mailboxes. For example, and depending...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

FTPS/SFTP list command to show folder timestamp

Currently only files show the last modified timestamps while folders show current timestamp of the list request. Proper behavior would be to also show folder last modified timestamp which is already available in the SI data model.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

Resynchronize Elastic data from Cassandra data for Archived orders

The successful archival of orders into Order Service results in their deletion from the OMS. In the event of a disaster or other unforeseen issue leading to Elastic data loss, the absence of these archived orders in OMS prevents their resynchroniz...
27 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Decouple Order Service Dependency on Cassandra

Currently, Order Service relies on Cassandra for index data before triggering a search in Elastic. This dependency on Cassandra for search operations in Order Service can cause service disruptions during a Cassandra outage. Additionally, the time ...
27 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Delayed Deletion of OMS Data on Archival of order into Order Service

As Order Service becomes the primary source of truth for orders, we have been evaluating disaster recovery strategies for Elastic and Cassandra services. One area of concern is potential data loss during OMS order archival into OS. Given Cassandra...
27 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

URL contains the session token which can be easily captured by an attacker

Control centre URL contains session token displayed in URL as a query string. Our security standard mandates that Applications should use an alternative mechanism for transmitting session tokens, such as HTTP cookies or hidden fields in forms that...
28 days ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

Increase VALUE column length from 100 characters to 255 in ACT_NON_XFER table.

The reports regarding table ACT_NON_XFER in the Sterling Integrator Database, show incomplete information. The VALUE column is capped at 100 characters, resulting in incomplete visualization of values such as mailboxes. We are suggesting to change...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted