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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...
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...

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Enable option the upload additional filed when deploying ITX maps to SPE02.

Enable option the upload additional filed when deploying ITX maps to SPE02. Currently there is no feature to deploy the supporting files such as schema xsd files which is required for ITX maps when we use Xerces imported type tree and for input v...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

External User should not add in ICC clasic console when we have configured LDAP to authenticate external users

IBM Control Center authenticates with LDAP if we created external users specifically in ICC classic console though we have configured LDAP with SEAS. The Feature Should be as below: 1.) ICC should validate if the user is local or external. If us...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Dual client install ability to access each environments directories

When the client is used as a dual client install (the one client machine can access both production and test installations of GSW) the ability to access each clients directory (Options > Preferences > Directories) would be beneficial for dev...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Not under consideration

In addition to current min/max size for each field in type tree design of a layout, enable a starting position for each field in layout once type tree is construcred.

When handling flat files or implicit file it is difficult to locate a data without its position. It is time consuming to locate a value in the input file that has to indicator or delimiter. In addition to current min/max size for each field in typ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Deactivate Email ID should not be Displayed/Poped Up in Target Agent of Sales Force

Deactivate Email ID should not be Displayed/Poped Up in Sales Force as it will be benefited to People using Salesforce
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Lock manager for Codelists and Maps on SPE

By having this lock manager, Users who are updating the code-list or maps won't be able to access the same resource at the same time
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct. It is useful to have NDMPING on UNIX Connect:Direct to help CD Administrators to complete a validation test...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Set Partner Unique ID on Bulk Upload

With multi-config in place, it makes more sense to allow the partner unique ID to be set on original upload than within the activity itself. As this is the only searchable field besides partner key, adding the ability to set this upon upload would...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Not under consideration

Passwordless login in CDWS

Our connect-direct node is using a passwordless unix user for communicating with our partners node (snode). As of right now (v 6.0.0.3) the Connect:Direct WebServices GUI is requiring password in order to login on our node. There seems to be no wa...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

findInventory does not validate zip code length

For invalid zip codes which are 10 character long and first 6 characters are valid, findInventory returns valid results. instead it should throw error.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration