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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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Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...

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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Provide monitoring of Up/Down status for PEM components (PEM,PR,PP,PCM)

Partner Engagement Manager is a core component of a modernized Sterling stack and provides critical partner facing interfaces (both external and internal) that should be monitored. CCM should provide out of the box monitoring for UP/DOWN status an...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Planned for future release

System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Under review

Under the equipment tab, we would like to be able to open an individual equipment and see all material spares consumed/on a BoM for that equipment.

From the equipment tab, we would like to be able to click on a piece of equipment and immediately see all the materials that are linked to and/or have been consumed by that equipment and be able to navigate to those materials in the tool.
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted