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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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Ability for Approvers to update fields as a part of Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, I would like the capability for the original (1st) Workflow Approver to be able to update data against specific fields. These fields are those that contain information that is required to be provided by the Workflow App...
7 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Ability to present 'Action' options to Approver(s) within Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, when creating some types of Workflow Rules, I would like the ability to add a list of 'options' for the original (1st) Workflow approver to choose from as a part of their approval, that relate to the result of the appro...
7 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...

Allow inventory supervisors the access to stop processing an SLC CR on behalf of the inventory team member that is currently processing the CR, but is out of the office.

It would be useful in the case of an inventory controller being out of the office and a site needs an SLC CR actioned ASAP. It would benefit the flow of production. All inventory supervisors would have access that would enable them to stop process...
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Capacity assessment of ITXA Rest Server

We are developing ITX maps that will access ITXA codelist for several fields mapping. Below are the expected scenarios: 1. There will be 100s of ITX maps to be developed to access ITXA codelist 2. Each map can access several times in a single exec...
18 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Export of Trading Partner list to a file

We need an export functionality in IBM Sterling B2B Integration SaaS Hub > My company > Trading partners to easily get the complete list of the TP IDs and their corresponding names. The exported file from here is to be used to feed into our ...
13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Under review

Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1). I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application. We wi...
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SEAS rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SEAS m...

Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SSP rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SSP making it very difficu...
20 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration