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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...

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Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Future consideration

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
11 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Need Audit details of cycle count Approval and Rejection

We need an Audit Details of who approved/Rejected the cycle count on variance ,Currently we have audit details only to whom the task is assigned but not the details of person who approved/rejected it hence it is becoming difficult to identify the ...
9 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Future consideration

Adding Email Body via BPN ST tool

There are lot of request in Electrolux project for email flows where we need to deliver the output file as attachment in email and also send email body with some message to the trading partners. Currently, we use ITX map and Attachment Macro to ac...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Future consideration

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

User disable option in Control Center Monitor

Dear Team, Greetings of the day!! Requesting to add the user disable feature so that when an user who has not logged in since last one month will be disable by the admin for security reasons. We have user update,edit,delete features in version 6.3...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Update GPM to work with Windows11

The GPM (Graphical Process Modeler) is not working with my new laptop that has Windows11 operating system.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Exclude set periods from the Movement and Forecast Usage calculation due to strike or curtailment

Asset Intensive companies tend to have unionized labor forces that can go "on strike" for a number of months at a time. The usage during these strike periods tends to be considerably curtailed or non-existent. The impact of a 4-6 months-long strik...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration