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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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One Activity with the final Name rather than having all activity with the different Name.

Currently in PEM, if we "Mark as Final" one activity with a certain name then we cannot use the same name for any other activity even if we delete that particular activity. This cause a lot of issues with the non-development personal as to which v...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Kill Switch / Hardstop for Adapters in irresponsive stat

Hi Team, we had many occasions where an adapter is in irresponsive stat, and we will not be able to start the adapter via Sterling dashboard or via opscmd.sh / opscmd.cmd. We have tried many times to stop via opscmd.sh/cmd and start it still comes...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information

Update or Modification of Partner Configuration to the existing role out if incase of any failure

We are having issue deleting the partner ID from PEM.Below are the details:After completing the onboarding process, both PartnerName and PartnerId are generated and recorded in the Partner Information task. If a system failure occurs during the in...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Under review

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

SCC does not capture SFG Custom Events

Hi, We have installed ICC 6.1 and we are creating a portal kind of monitoring stuff to monitor all SFG files in ICC Console ( File Monitor). We have created custom events to track additional data in SFG. There are some fields we want to capture fr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

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

Have C:D log the expiration date of certificates it receives

Today, when C:D calls out to a remote server, it logs some details about the certificate it received. It would be nice if it also logged the expiration date. This would allow us to write, say, a Perl script to scan the logs once a day looking for ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Column Addition to Item_Usage Tables

Please add the following columns to Items_Usage Table 1) Add "Projd_Usg_Dte" - When a user populates the Forecast Calendar with values, we stamp the item record with the date of the projected demand entry, but without this date also being populate...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Create an archived/purged report for all BP's purged at a given time

When seeing spikes/drops in DB size it would be helpful to determine what may have caused. DBSTAT does nothing in this regard. It would help if a report could shows all BP's names and number of executions for given point and time.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration