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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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Check file upload content with magic bytes

At current situation a malicious user can bypass the file type restrictions for logos in pem-pp application. It is possible to bypass the upload restrictions and upload a disallowed file by changing the file Content-Type to an allowed one. The ser...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review

HTTP Adapter Connection Properties: SSL Settings - multiple system certificates needed

When the certificate used for our AS2 and HTTP connections with trading partners expires, we must switch to a new certificate. Each of our trading partners must be given the new certificate. The System certificate option on the HTTP Adapter Connec...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Not under consideration

Exclude set periods from the Movement and Forecast Usage calculation due to strike or curtailment

Asset Intensive companies tend to have unionized labor forces that can go "on strike" for a number of months at a time. The usage during these strike periods tends to be considerably curtailed or non-existent. The impact of a 4-6 months-long strik...
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Need to include velocity code in all cycle count pubsub messages

We need an inclusion of velocity code in all Pubsub messages i.e,countRequestCreated,countRequestCompleted,countTasksCreated,countTasksAssigned,varianceApproved,inventoryAdjustment(on variance approval for cycle count).Since we are trying to custo...
about 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Other 3 Future consideration

Address $$UPDATE Deficiencies

We experienced an issue with C:D 6.1 on z/OS where we performed a $$UPDATE function on a netmap entry and the node became unable to accept inbound connections. We were advised by CD support that there is an obscure recommendation in the documentat...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Disable concurrent user login in SCC

As per Bank security team, Concurrent logins should not be allowed. If the user is login via different machines or different browsers then the old session should be destroyed. As per them, we need to have this feature in the product or commitment ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Planned for future release

Disable concurrent user login in SFG and Dashboard

Currently for the Concurrent login with same credentials via different machines or different browsers, there is pop-up message which notify, that there are multiple sessions and upon clicking on "OK" button, both sessions kept active. Security tea...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Under review

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration