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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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Querying payloads with the products search endpoint

We use custom fields for our products that we store into payloads. When using the search endpoint /outbound/v2/products, we would like to use our custom fields as filters (maybe as a key/value input). We already use the tags to filter on a categor...
about 1 month ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Future consideration

Revoking a shared data authorization

We need a way to apply changes to the shared data status with the "interested parties" feature. Some data can be shared for a time then revoked later when a partnership between organization has ended.
about 1 month ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information

Find and review shared data

We use the "interested parties" feature to share products between organization. Once an item (document, product, EPC, facility, event) is shared with another organization, there is nowhere (and no API endpoints) to check what have been shared exac...
about 1 month ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Planned for future release

Supply and Demand Snapshots

Similar to Product Availability snapshot where On Hand Available Quantity and Future Available Quantity are sent on demand in an event - we would like the option to push a Supply Event Snapshot and Demand Event Snapshot that will contain all the S...
21 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
about 2 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
23 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
24 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
13 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Submitted