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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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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 ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Functionality already exists

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

Capacity support for carrier services

- Ability to define capacity restrictions at carrier service level along with time slot offerings- Capacity restriction example: 10 orders/lines/units on specified days for "Next Day Delivery" at "Store A" and 15 orders/lines/units on specified da...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Carrier Service Cut-off Time Support

- Extension of previous RFE (Multiple Carrier Service Support in "Calculate Preorder Shipment Assignments") to not show carrier services that are outside of cut-off time- E.g. if "Next Day Delivery" rule is that order must be placed by 3pm then on...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enable Stop Deployment option

There are occasions where we accidentally click on deploy button and there is no way we can stop the deployment. Can the product atleast ask for a confirmation before initiating the process? or lets have a stop deployment option in the lower envir...
8 months ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

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

Ability to setup Node Capacity for a ship node by item type

A Retailer broadly classifies their products into two types - Soft line - Clothing, shoes etc. Big Ticket - Electronics, Appliances etc. Because the effort to pick/pack/ship these product type is different, the capacity for each ship node to handl...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 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

MDC (Modification Detection Code) support for native PGP service with in the Sterling Integrator.

Other PGP software's like 'McAFee' supports MDC (Modification Detection Code).
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future 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