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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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Password Security Controls

Password security controls for SEAS administrator interfaces using local authentication are not sufficient. Minimum password length of eight characters can’t be enforced. Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are mi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server 1 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling Inflight - Map Translation Output File

I am requesting an enhancement to the IBM Sterling Inflight map failure information that is currently provided. We receive the failure information the same as we would get from IBM B2B Sterling Integrator. However, we do not get to see the resulti...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Permit for quota-free import of in-store TAKE SALES (not orders) for one-stop shop in customer order history

Take sales (ie. walk-in spot purchases of in-store stock) are not a majority of overall enterprise-wide transactions, and the OMS is not expected to process them in any regard, ie settlement or fulfillment - This is all taken care of by the POS pl...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Product improvement for reading pdf and ZPL data along with image format

Currently OMS Provides SFS Feature which helps to print data only if it is in image format. FedEx and UPS carrier system supports image data. But other carriers like postAT, DHL send response in pdf data or ZPL data form. IBM does not support thos...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Not under consideration

Scheduling agent triggers in different time zones (Other than UTC)

Currently the advances scheduling option for agents only takes time in UTC and triggers the same in UTC time zone. For different countries like US people want agents to be trig-erred in their time zone for example EST. EST has to be converted to U...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

certificate-based authentication support for CDAIJ and CDW

Many customers from banks need to change their OS users' password every 1 or 3 months for all OS according to their security regulation which means all applications or middleware using the old password must change at the same time. For customers, ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

Encryption for Socket Adapter

We would like to exchange data over Socket securely and would like if ITX/WTX can add encryption to Socket Adapter
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Perform periodic scans of the information system and real-time scans of files from external sources as files are downloaded, opened or executed

External users can upload files to a mailbox. However, the files are not scanned for malicious content in mailbox. More Info - Perform periodic scans of the information system and real-time scans of files from external sources as files are downloa...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

We need a Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions

Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions NASCO routinely receives very large HIPAA X12 transmissions from their business / trading partners. (Very large meaning millions of segments and tens of thousands of transactions.) Only...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration