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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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New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

CDWebServices to allow separate WebInterface and RestAPI installations

Allow more individualized and specialized architecture implementations of CDWS by making separate component (or making them selectable/optional) installations for both the Web interface and the RestAPI components.Look into including the RestAPI's ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Superuser account for MyFileGateway to monitor multiple partner's file routing activity.

Superuser account for MyFileGateway to monitor multiple partner's file routing activities which can help particular application or group to see all partner activities under one accountability.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true needs to be added into the security.properties.in file

per IBM - There is a technote that indicates security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true be added to the customer_overrides specifically to ignore OID errors caused by certificates with attributes not supported by the Certicom jar files which SI use...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Use a whitelist approach to validate the file extension in /dsv/sponsor/module/fileManagement and /dsv/partner/module/fileManagement

The PEM is vulnerable to an unrestricted file upload on the path /dsv/partner/module/fileManagement/ and /dsv/sponsor/module/fileManagement in the parameter file. Through this vulnerability it is possible to upload a windows executable file that t...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3

Allow Workflow to Continue After API has Failed

When creating an API dialog there should be an option to continue workflow even when the API fails. Preferably, it would have conditions to continue based upon what error is received.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Report to pull last accessed/last login time for all partners

There seems to be a lack of reporting on historical activity of users/partners in Sterling to be able to determine if an account is active and when it was last active. I'm currently trying to pull a last login/last accessed timestamp for each user...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration