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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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Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
8 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Provide scripting option to import, export, and deploy CDT xml files

The ssctl command can be used to upload and deploy customizations jar files. It would be nice to expand the functionality of this command to support the upload, download, import, export, and deployment of CDT xml files. This would enable automatio...
almost 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0

Support segmentation inventory from IV

Product to consume inventory from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not enough. This will support in reservation and sourcing to fulfill from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not present. Also partial reservation and alloc...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Support Open API 3.0 specifications in the Sterling Connect:Direct APIs

My customer would like to have in our product support for Open API 3.0, because most developers are no longer using OpenAPI 2.0 and want to move to OpenAPI 3.0.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Partner invitation should identify the duplicates and warn the sponsor.

PEM should throw an warning saying that the user is already registered or Invitation sent to partner as soon as sponsor clicks on Invite button and the a partner is registered with that Email Id already. This avoid sending the duplicate invites to...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Extend the use of Perimeter Server to Object Store Client Adapter

If Perimeter Server could support connections made from the Object Store Client Adapter it would be simple for customers to enable a connection and centralizing the entire deployment on the same Sterling platform
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

EASI standards in Sterling Integrator

Hi , Please let me know how we can incorporate EASI standards into our Sterling Integrator map editor . We have Trading Partners that want send data & receive data via EASI standards . The EASI transactions used are mostly 850,856,810,846 . We...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Is a defect