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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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Connect:Direct Client Identification by the Connect:Direct Server

Connect:Direct, although a peer to peer MFT tool, uses a client - server model as it's underlying architecture. With a client submitting a job to the C:D server, we cannot identify the client server with the current state of affairs if the C:D ser...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Any configuration information stored in the CCM database must be encrypted

Requirement stated by customer that all configured objects in the database must be encrypted. This includes audit information and any information containing IPs, host names and passwords. Whole-disk encryption, SAN storage encryption, and database...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Future consideration

Customer requires complete encryption of all objects stored at rest in B2Bi/SFG database including trading partner information

Requirement has been stated by customer that all columns in the B2Bi/SFG database be encrypted, beyond what is hashed (passwords) and at-rest encryption (documents). This would include more recent sensitive information such as user names, IPs and ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Enable users to see federated accounts

Currently, admins cannot easily see which users are federated and which are not. We have to actively reach out to IBM to see if the new user is federated then we can proceed with providing access. This process is long and labor intensive. Providin...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Extend sourcing audit feature to inquiry APIs like findInventory API

The request is to have sourcing audit enabled for findInventory API and this is our requirement as we do sourcing optimization even before order is created at the time of checkout.
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Implementing a new adapter to convert encoded XML string to process data.

I have a BP which converts a JSON to XML using xmljsontransformer. The XML is then saved in textual format in the process data ("Output" tag) and subsequently I have to convert it to XML always in the process data. If get the output from the file ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Purging notification records at run-time

With current Windows Connect:Express versions, when notifications are enabled, notification records are added at run-time in the local database, even when they are fully processed (notifications messages sent), and they remain there, possibly very...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Double quotes in XML output display as (") in SI 6

SI602 and SI6103 can’t display double quotes(“) in XML output but display as " SI6 display double quotes as " *SI6.png SI525 display double quotes as “ *SI525.png
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Support Wild Card DDE setups and Allow executing Basic Deferred as Preprocessor

Problem Statement: Issue # 1 - Deferred Enveloping (DDE) in SPE is not supporting WILD CARD setups today . It is expecting us to define sender/receiver/ala with definitive values. Config Center UI allows us to configure wild carded setups, but the...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration