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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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Disable inventory safety factor on distribution group level

Currently, there is no option to ignore inventory safety factor when set on node level and configured in global inventory visibility. The option to disable safety factors on distribution group level would be beneficial in order to be able to monit...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Setting local permission controls in userfile.cfg for landed files

Connect:Direct (aka NDM) provides great power over sending files to report systems, allowing the potential for running jobs or tasks on a remote system. But receiving system lacks some simple security controls within the usefile.cfg over files lan...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Please add support C:D to use S3 Storage for IBM i5os, like is S3 storage support for C:D on Unix platforms.

This is necessary to maintain the competition of platform solutions on the system for solutions on the unix platform. C:D is a multiplatform product so it should offer the same functions on all platforms without restrictions. We need to use transf...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement for IBM Compliance Check error report generation

Currently our product is using a standard IBM Compliance check map for the Error report to be generated for any errors. Since this report is generated on html, Our clients are interested in a PDF or any other readable format. It would be helpful, ...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Needs more information

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

AWS S3 access-key and Secret-key Import/deployment option.

Option to deploy/import access-key/secret-key details into our product table. So that we can fetch those values while creating AWSS3custom protocol in IBM Sterling File gateway. This way we can able fetch Bucketname, access-key/secret-key values e...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 1 Future consideration

Enhance the product to charge/settlement based on the authorized amount and authorization id mapping

The following is the issue scenario Line 1 – Authorized (individual auth id) along with shipping charge (Authorized -individual auth id). Shipped and invoiced Line 2 – Authorized with auth id. As part of the settlement, a single charge record is o...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

add -L parameter to RUN()

Looks like the -L parameter is currently only available in Command Server on Non-Windows platforms. When I try to call RUN("submap", "-L") in a map, I only get a generic error message ("Error detected in running map, exiting.") Our migration from ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Not under consideration