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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...
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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Inflight search using PID as primary rather than advanced search - bypassing date constraints

I ask that Inflight search have a field for PID as a primary search parameter, rather than having to go into advanced search and select process ID for searching - also PID should be unique so it should bypass any date period set on the start and e...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

publicly accessible system status page

Availability of a publicly accessible system status pages to provide transparency around service availability and performance for the SCBN products or other IBM products.
almost 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Circuit Breaker for OMS Agent and Integration Framework

What problem are we trying to solve?Scenario when external integration point’s (Payment Gateway , carrier service or any external application ) service is down, oms agent/integration server transaction will error out and goes to reprocess error ta...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Add Dev Toolkit version check & download for SST Command Line Tools

Add a method / option to the command line tool to pull the dev toolkit version for latest (overall) or for a particular environment -- and show a version string. As a bonus, add a method / option to download the latest dev toolkit version. For bon...
almost 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PEM should have an option of Copy-&-Paste the already created API boxes, XSLT boxes and Dialog boxes.

Currently, if we want to create same API dialog box twice then we have to create that from the scratch i.e., entering the same URL, Location, Calls etc. and this creates a big issue when we have to do the same API calls with extremely minute to no...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Multiple work orders allowed for a single order line

For any retail client working on any customization of products, they use work order concept to provide delivery or provided service. For an order with multiple quantities in a single order line, there are multiple valid cases, where a single work ...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SEAS

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers, then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Future consideration