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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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Display Partners During Rollout using Attributes

During the roll out based on the attribute selection, it should display all the Trading Partners which match the roll out criteria. Currently, it only displays count of trading partners, but it should list all partner names so that list can be cro...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Change wording of Close Activity dialog

When the dialog appears for closing an activity the options are "Close" and "Cancel". This is mildly confusing for the user, as usually "Close" means close the dialog. Also, the close button appears in different places (see attachment for further ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add New User ID Variable for Partner Invitation Email Templates

Sponsors (e.g. US Bank) want to be able to include the User ID that the partner should be using when they register in the partner invitation email.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Daily file listing invoices submitted through Inflight

I would like to have a file sent daily which lists all invoices sent through Inflight for the previous 24 hours. The purpose of this file is so I can automate a validation against what our ERP system says it should have exported and compare agains...
about 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Ability to consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types.

When doing inventory allocation based on segmentation, OMS should consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types. This feature currently exists in v10. But is needed for v9.5 for...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Support SM2 Public Key Algorithm

SM2 is a four-part standard for public key algorithms specified by China. This enhancement is to support the file encryption and decryption by SM2 and perform file exchange with China.
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Provide read only access to replica DB

There are many known issues with Data extract agent, and IBM cognos is not an option for many clients. Please provide access to the replica DB, especially some sort of mechanism for analytics applications like Tableau.
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Add SFTP adapter to ITX 9

We are using ITX 9 but need to be able to send files using SFTP rather than plain FTP. We would like to see ITX 9 support the SFTP adapter that is available in 10.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 1 Not under consideration

Change BPN Config Center initial page to have only searchbox, not list of customers

Initial page in Config Center attempts to build a list of customers, and this list can be quite lengthy. There is a search box but it cannot be used until the list build is complete. I feel that just a search box that could be immediately used wou...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enable Bulk Download of EDI Source Documents

The current process in IBM Sterling Inflight allows users to download individual EDI source documents from the transaction detail view. This works fine for individual file testing and reviews. An option to select multiple transactions and download...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration