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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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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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    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

    Setting local permission controls in userfile.cfg for landed files

    Connect:Direct (aka NDM) provides great power over sending files to report systems, allowing the potential for running jobs or tasks on a remote system. But receiving system lacks some simple security controls within the usefile.cfg over files lan...
    7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

    Please add support C:D to use S3 Storage for IBM i5os, like is S3 storage support for C:D on Unix platforms.

    This is necessary to maintain the competition of platform solutions on the system for solutions on the unix platform. C:D is a multiplatform product so it should offer the same functions on all platforms without restrictions. We need to use transf...
    7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

    Enhancement for IBM Compliance Check error report generation

    Currently our product is using a standard IBM Compliance check map for the Error report to be generated for any errors. Since this report is generated on html, Our clients are interested in a PDF or any other readable format. It would be helpful, ...
    7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Needs more information

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

    In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

    Automated Reports for Success and Failure Stats from IBM Sterling

    Currently, we have to manually generate the reports by extracting the data from Sterling Inflight as per steps below.We access https://na.inflight.b2b.ibmcloud.com/ to get both reports. Business view preference is set to be Whirlpool XMLAccount -&...
    about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Planned for future release

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