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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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Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for S3 Put service in Sterling Integrator tool

we need to invoke the AWS S3 Put BP from a parent BP. The AWS S3 Put BP always asks for a path of the source file and it doesn't take the file from parent BP like other BPs/Services Hence, we need an enhancement to achieve this without giving a...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Feature to close bulk PEM Portal and Provisioner Activities

Currently, each activity or rollout has to be manually and separately closed. During development, Unit Testing, and UAT cycles lots of activities are created. There should be a way in PEM to bulk close Portal and Provisioner activities based on fi...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

ITXA - Documentation needing to be updated for the following properties including their implications.

Customer is wanting documentation on the following properties and the implicatoins of using them: # Lock Manager settings: Uncomment to change the default values. # Maximum time to wait for acquiring a lock in ms. The default is 2 hours. #envelopi...

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Provide a secure location for SaaS customers to store API secret IDs and keys so that they can more securely manage the application

As a part of any OMS implementation, integration with 3rd party external system is common. It will be great if IBM OMoC provided a secure vault solution to store API secret id and keys. For On Prem, customers could encrypt the secret id and keys. ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability for Approvers to update fields as a part of Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, I would like the capability for the original (1st) Workflow Approver to be able to update data against specific fields. These fields are those that contain information that is required to be provided by the Workflow App...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Ability to present 'Action' options to Approver(s) within Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, when creating some types of Workflow Rules, I would like the ability to add a list of 'options' for the original (1st) Workflow approver to choose from as a part of their approval, that relate to the result of the appro...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table is too short

Error in logs indicating data truncation on PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table. ERROR 000000000000 GLOBAL_SCOPE DmiVisEventWarehouseQueue.Worker.executeStatementsAsExecutor had a SQL exception from pstmnt: PreparedStatementHelper: SQL: UPDATE A...

Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release