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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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Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Add native 2 Factor Authentication (2FA/MFA) for external MyFileGateway users

Banking security standards require that external customer access to banking systems require Multi-Factor Authentication. While IBM offer SEAS, and the ability to build customised connectivity to external 2FA providers, this introduces risk whene...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Functionality already exists

SIP Promise: Introduce Jurisdiction and Exclusion while calculating promise

Jurisdiction and Exclusion - Based on the Product Attribute and Shipping Group for Address whether Fulfilment allowed or not should be considered with in SIP promise to provide EDD and shipment assignments. This is required to manage carrier const...
10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

SIP Promise : New Fulfillment Calendar API

Retailers expose dates and slots as calendar to customer for Nominated delivery/collection offerings as a part of Fulfilment options, there is no API available in SIP Promise to support this - this is equivalent of getPossibleSchedules API in OMS ...
10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Reservation to block capacity

Reservation API as of now reserves only Stock and it doesn’t reserve corresponding capacities. This needs to be enhanced to reserve Node Capacity for each item and DELIVERY/C&C Capacity for each release level as a part of reservation If Capaci...
10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

SIP Promise to consider last mile delivery capacity or instore collection capacity while calculating item delivery or pickup date in EDD and Shipment Assignment calculations

Retailer would like SIP to hold Transport (Last mile carrier delivery capacity) and Task (C&C Collection Capacity) with in SIP Capacity service which is fed by CMS/CAGS/Carrier and LMS and make use of the same in EDD/createShipmentAssignment c...
10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Promising APIs to consider Item Attributes or Delivery Option to define capacityCategoriesToConsider

Use case: Retailer would like to have a ring fenced capacity for Standard Home Delivery, Express Home Delivery, Same Day Store Collection, Next Day Store Collection for items that belongs to particular department or falls under sale, this will all...
10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

IBM Sterling Rest Services should support BASIC and STANDARD authstyles at a time in the same instance

LIMITATION: In IBM Sterling Order Management 9.4 and 9.5, Currently If we want to use Rest Services in one deployment we have to choose either of the one authstyles 'BASIC' or 'STANDARD' only. Customer has deployed SMCFS on 2 WAS instances to serv...
over 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration