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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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Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key. The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Report needed that would show the File Agents and version of File Agent being used

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Change MQ adapter password max from 20 to 42+ characters.

MQ adapter in B2BI/SFG is limited to a 20 character password. IBM MQ SaaS offering in IBM Cloud requires a 42 character password minimum. Can the allowed password length be increased so B2BI/SFG MQ adapter will work on IBM Cloud MQ Service?
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Add Business Alias field in inflight for a process(Process ID)

Existing Document search in BPN has a required field "Business Alias". So along with DateTime Range ; one has to put BA to track any document flowing into the system. One has to search business alias from existing customers business alias. Also if...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Increase length of Activity Roll Out Name

Allow more characters in the name of activity roll outs. Increase the limit to 300 characters.
almost 7 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Functionality already exists

Rejected partners can never be Accepted

Once a partner or user has been rejected they can never then be accepted using the same e-mail address. The product assumes that if someone is rejected they will forever be rejected. Also can not edit profile.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Not under consideration

Chrysler Event Driven FTP - Request to maintain logs for 120 days on "SKS9O001" mailslot

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almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

New report that lists the XML source code of the BPs.

New report that allows the client to know the xml content of one, several or all active BPs in the system at any time. This would allow reviewing the processes, looking for adapters and others, that the client may need to know when migrating from ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Support for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration