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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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Add time zone to Connect Direct logs

Add time zone information to Connect Direct logs. Log file should present the datetime/timestamp in unambiguous fashion.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

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 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Automated UNSPSC Classification functionality

Since MRO IO team is working on enhancing the features for catalogue cleansing, can you please consider introducing a feature to automate UNSPSC classification using LLM (AI). This will benefit all your clients who currently do not use UNSPSC in t...
9 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support Load balancing for IBM DB2 service.

We are having b2bi(Sterling Integrator) installed in VM and Database we have for B2Bi is IBM DB2 and there are 3 IPs assigned to the DB and being load balanced with Round robin. This scenario seems not supported. Having support for this feature wi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

Enhancing monitoring rules

Order monitoring rules should be based on the combination of count of orders in a particular status for a period of time. This will help to monitor the orders when an agent is not working fine or a technical glitch in the system and can react and ...
over 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Planned for future release

Option to Disable Exporting Private keys from SSPCM

Currently we can export Private keys for SSL certificates and private SSH keys using export API in SSPCM which is a security concern. Having an option to disable exporting private keys will strengthen the application and comply with Banking securi...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Linux systemd script implementation for Sterling Connect:Express

to Develop and test example IBM Sterling Connect:Express linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Future consideration

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Include validation for NBOR SaFIR messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate NBOR SaFIR messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. Can the next FinPay PLUS package include the necess...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Planned for future release