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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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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.
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years 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.
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered

Unable to create the connect direct partner using custom protocol from B2Bi REST API

We are trying to create connect direct partner via custom protocol using B2BI rest api. We are unable to add below values which have comma(,) in middle while creating the partner in custom extensions RemoteDCB:(RECFM=FB,LRECL=160) RemoteDISP:(NEW,...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Ability to view line dates in order line details in Order Hub.

We are using oob date type YCD_FTC_PROMISE_DATE at order line level to create sales order. This order line date is present in yfs_order_date table. However, this particular date type is not visible in order line details in Order Hub.
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered

Add Multi-Factor Authentication on Mailbox for Mail Process

The basic authentication of Microsoft is about to be decommissioned and most will be switching to multi-factor authentication. This is a request for a multi-factor authentication support for B2B Mail Client Adapter which connects to Office 365 ser...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered

Proposed amendment to unlocode facility IDs

No description provided
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 2 Delivered

Support for Distance Information in Get Node Availability (IV)

- Ability to obtain distance information from input longitude / latitude- Future support could consider plugins to external address locator systems for distance by road than just straight line
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered