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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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Ability to pass custom alerts to SCC from B2Bi

This is for the ability to send custom alerts to SCC from B2Bi/SFG systems. A service should be designed for use in business processes to allow information to be passed into SCC.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Not under consideration

FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center

->FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center Comments from IBM: Control Center does not monitor system level BPs, and that is by design. The customer can open an enhancement if they desire an...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Add DVG and submitter ID fields to All File Transfer Services APIs in Control Center 6.1

Requesting to add submitter and data visibility group (DVG) to all file transfer services APIs, especially Get Completed Files List and Read FileTransfers. Current APIs are limited and there is no way to restrict the return results per partner/sub...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Enable the Equipment Module (and Where Used) to be able to link to BOM’s using just ‘DIVISION’, instead of DIVISION and DISTRICT_CD

This is useful as it will allow client to filter through on materials issued against equipment at Division level and get the right count when they view that material against all District_Cd affected
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

C:D support for Multi Factor Authentication

Incorporate into the C:D security processing to allow for users signing on with multi factor authentication credentials.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Inflight ERN notfication through SMS

Hi Team, We see so many ERN gets triggered for translation / Protocol failures and customer have difficulty in Identifying / Prioritize transactions that needs Immediate attention. Customer would like to have an option available to configure SMS a...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Strip LDAP syntax from SEAS return data and return just the values

PEM/PCM requires each user to have a “role”. When LDAP is integrated with PCM, the “role” is obtained as a mapping from an LDAP attribute value. Enterprise customers with an enterprise Microsoft Active Directory schema can be constrained from usin...
10 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Under review

Increase length of Activity Roll Out Name

Allow more characters in the name of activity roll outs. Increase the limit to 300 characters.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

REST API hostname 50 chars restriction

IBM Partner Engagement Manager does not accept hostname for REST APIs more than 50 chars but there are REST API hostnames more than 50 chars even in IBM Cloud (bluemix) CloudantDB REST API with guid-id.bluemix.cloudant.com and hostnames can be up ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Functionality already exists