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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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Enhance "Stock history relocation" feature to transfer usage history between storage locations on multiple stock codes at same time.

Stock history relocation feature is very useful in transferring usage history from old storage location to another new storage location. However, it has be done one material code at a time. Operations/maintenance initiated few projects in the past...
almost 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Provision to store Node Availability during release creation for future reference and insights on actual stock position used during allocation

Currently post release (during back-end fulfillment process), Sterling has no insights on the stock position for that item on the node during release creation. Hence it is difficult to reconcile or justify instances where Store and DCs have repo...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

The same Customer List should be used by both BTI and InFlight

The customer list in Customer Center is used by BTI but InFlight uses a separate list. Maintaining two separate lists is time consuming and error prone.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 2 Planned for future release

Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Increase PNUM limit to a much higher value (e.g. 1'000'000'000)

PNUM is actually limited to 99999 for most CD implementations. This is very low and has for effect that pnum can rotate very quickly. ICC is for example relying the grouping of CD events on this Process ID (which is a non sense as it's not unique,...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

introduction of query parameter or new function for exact match search

when we try to find a specific user credential using its name and the partner it belongs to , the API performas a like search and returning multiple matches. Looks like, for the profileConfigName query parameter, this API is deviating from the sta...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Generate longfile name for Connect:Direct transfers in log

We want to utilize transfer logs generated in syslog/task log to do some automation reporting and alerting. However NDM longfile name which reported in SMF type FI isn't written to syslog so we can't get full pictures for file transfers between un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

C:X should log user authentication activity

Currently C:X logs user activity like add/delete/update of documents (since C:X 150-16 iFix10). But for audit requirements it is also necessary to track user authentication activity.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

Enhance Self-Service tool to view and update Server (agent/integration) JVM parameters in NextGen tenants like the Legacy tenants

We seem to have the lost the capablity to view and update JVM arguments because of introduction to server profiles in nextgen selft service tool. We should still have the capability to view and update any non-memory related parameters just like th...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists