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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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Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Strip LDAP syntax from SEAS return data and return just the values

PEM/PCM requires each user to have a “role”. When LDAP is integrated with PCM, the “role” is obtained as a mapping from an LDAP attribute value. Enterprise customers with an enterprise Microsoft Active Directory schema can be constrained from usin...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Under review

Develop SEAS to intelligently query for IPs that come from a subnet and allow them in if that subnet is in an LDAP attribute

Why useful? Useful because these days a lot of trading partners are coming from cloud environments that aren't front-ended by one (or a handful) IP address. Who benefits? Anyone who desires to whitelist IPs as a means of authentication or just as ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Reports created in Cognos should be able to be scheudled and managed in SCC

The integration of Cognos has provided unending options for generating reports but anything created in Cognos is not visible to SCC for scheduling or management/modification through the GUI.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

File Agent: sort capability missing to guarantee files sequence

FA doesn't provide a mechanism to process the files located in a specific folder in a specific order (i.e. file sorted by timestamp, name, size ). There are scenarios where the sequence the Producer Application generates the files must be respecte...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

Supoprt for HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)

What version of Sterling Connect:Direct Linux/Windows will support Hadoop HDFS? Do you have any release date? I found similar thread at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=65228 but I didn't see any updates. T...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability/ API to provide inventory availability considering the OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER in the response of IV service

The Get Network Availability API exposed in Inventory Visibility mandate Distribution Group to be passed in the input. The API does not consider OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER demand types while computing the availability in IV. This leads to inconsistenci...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 7 Future consideration

Fine grained authorisation for REST services

It seems any user in APIUser can execute any Product service. In our solution we might want to permission different users (identified by an access token , I've raised other Ideas for that) to have different access to services (proxied through the ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Validation failure message box

Currently it is possible to add validation to dialogs in tasks. When a partner does not complete/answer accurately there is no way to specifically tell them what to fix. There is a red X next to the field which is in violation, but not what they a...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On for PEM

Support Single Sign On for PEM to allow integration with identity management systems. This critical to comply with security requirements and verify user/partner identity. From a user experience, this is needed to provide a more seamless client/par...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release