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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...
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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...
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    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 ...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

    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...
    about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

    Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

    Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

    EPSDK API should allow caller to specify keystore and truststore for SSL/TLS connections

    When Control Center is configured for SSL, an application using the EPSDK should be able to specify the keystore and truststore to use for SSL connections. Currently the EPSDK does a few things that don't work well 1. The SDK sets up a Trust Manag...
    7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

    Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

    Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

    IV Full Sync: Ability to import inventory availability into OMS in batch mode and reset any items to o if there is no open relevant demands in OMS

    The loadInvnetoryMismatch API is used to bulk load inventory (supply qty for each SKU/location combination) into OMS and this API has a feature (CompleteInventoryFlag) where the API can reset inv to 0 for any items that are not passed in the input...
    over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release

    Please turn on the ability to include formulas in new work queues.

    We have thoroughly enjoyed the new functionality of being able to create work queues; however, 9 times out of 10, I need to include a simple formula. It can be very painstaking to work these issues through support tickets, and it would be so much ...
    about 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

    Provide option in configuration to set to OOB where OOB recommendations are greater than standard configured Service Level configurations.

    This would provide greater availability while saving on purchasing costs, etc.
    almost 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

    tighten up on user mistakes, and educate them

    Flush with my last success...ZOSA1679 2/21/2019 Copy File Enhancement- Introduced new field PAG 'SUBMIT MULTI MODE' to allow user for single and multi submit from CF panel ...I have a couple more enhancements that I've just implemented in my site....
    7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

    Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
    about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

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