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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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We would like to view the ILMD information in the Trace UI

We would like the ILMD data to be displayed in the Trace UI, along with GDST master data elements in Trace
over 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Delivered

Embed refresh report in PU process

Clients complain that the PU completion email has arrived but yet their analytics reports have not got the latest data. The refresh_report is a separate process. There should be some automation to avoid confusion on clients so once the PU is finis...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 5 Delivered

Allow selection of PGP Profile on the Partner Profile in SFG - currently SFG only allows AFTPGPProfile

File Gateway today only allow the use of the static PGP Profile named 'AFTPGPProfile' - thus allowing only 1 type of PGP encryption to be used platform wide. We have vendors (using AWS S3) that only support the OpenPGP standard / GnuPGP for encryp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Delivered

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated. Currently, the audit is enabled for supply and demand updates to IV but there is not capability for client to know if an event is generated to webhook or COS. We see there are many instances where ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Issue messages to the CDPLEX Manager job log when CDPLEX Servers enter and leave the XCF Group

there were no message observed in the CDPLEX Manager job log when a CDPLEX Server enters or leaves the XCF group, we feel it is extremely important to Broadridge and others that messages about the CDPLEX Servers when entering and leaving the CDPle...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Introduce SASL Support in B2Bi

Integration use case with ITX and the Kafka adapter. Confulence is pushing SASL Support. SASL provides higher level security options to our customers
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Move aggregation of Resource pool capacity consumption to asynchronous process to reduce locking

As of now manageCapacityReservation/reserveInventory/reserveAvailableInventory API calls are locking YFS_RES_POOL_CAPCTY_CONSMPTN when capacity is reserved against node/date/shift combination. This slows down reservations when pick capacity enabled.
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Request enhancement to failover characteristic for B2B Integrator/SFG

We would like to request an enhancement of the failover characteristic of the product. During functional testing we have observed delays of up to an hour in re-establishing normal operations of the UI and scheduler in the surviving nodes. The test...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Delivered

In CDPLEX environment, CD manager needs to issue a message to indicate server is down after receiving XCF signal

In case TS009569597, we have found CD manager hangs at shutdown due to shutdown has been initiated for CD manager but XCF signal for CD server down has not been received by CD manager.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

Update/Fix functionality of the email notification screen

This was "lift and shift" from OAS but is not suitable for current purpose, does not even currenlty work. Email notifications for PU start/finish are currenlty managed external to the product (MRObot and Talend). This functionality should be compl...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered