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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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podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

DB tool usability enhancements

The DB query tool that comes with OMoC 2.0 has multiple usability issues. 1) on running a query, do not scroll the query entry window to the top, but leave the cursor where it is in the window 2) I should not need to add a space at the end of each...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

Protocol Profile ID in receive step

For Outbound files we display PPID in delivey step, bt for Inbound or Outbound files we do not display PPID in inflight steps. For example, for any Inbound file in receive step we can see communication details, the attached screenshot shows AS2_me...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Open diferent sheets from an excel file

We need to build a map where the input will be an excel file, but the information is retrieved from different sheets. Each file received contains a different number of sheets and the information will be retrieved by cells assigned in another inp...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to administer division partners and LOB users via the PEM Portal UI

Currently, Divisions can be created via the portal UI, however, the assigning/unassigning of partners to divisions and the assigning/unassigning of LOB users can currently only be done via API calls. It would be much easier if this could be done v...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

RestAPI support for Token Authentication rather than Basic Authentication

Looking for a future service availability to support Token Authentication, either with RestAPI or new one. As per my conversation with an IBM engineer on another troubleshooting call; support of Token Authentication by RestAPI is planned in future...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Claim Level Rejction

ITX-I-210 was an enhancement to claim level rejection to change from looking at only CLM01 to look at the entire CLM segment when checking for duplicates. This enhance was released in 10.2.1. We have found that we are still having issues with enti...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 4 Not under consideration

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

SPEDeenvelopingService not returning compliance error to B2BI ProcessData - Data is malformed and expecting non-compliant message from ITXA to the calling B2Bi Business Process - Advanced Status

B2BI submission of SPE deenveloping Service and the customer is expecting the response to set the BP STATE: HALTED and the Advanced Status: Resource edifactdata.txt: Transaction-Non-Compliant ....when there are issues with Segments and Elements. T...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration