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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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Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

Please create a work queue under 9 "QR" for "Quote Review"

As the Inventory get a quote we can add it to the work queue QR, It will enabale plant to prioritise their Plant reviews for quotes.
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

E-Invoice: Storing Failed Delivery documents when Archiving the invoice in Inflight

There is a legal requirement to also keep failed delivery documents from failed invoices in Italy. Right now when a failed invoice reaches 30 days old then it gets archived. When archived all events + attachments in the events get removed so there...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters Stanza of Initparm.cfg file. Here is problem Statement : We were able to send the file to DELL ECS S3 Bucket from linux node, for this one we have updated the initparm.cfg file, We hav...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future 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...

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem. cert auth is only available in unix and windows version. Our orgs have a large tandem nodes that are critical to organisation.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release