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File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Publish an event when inventory is moved between locations using move api

When inventory is moved between locations using API, we are not seeing a MoveCompleted event message being dropped as per the moveCompleted event. It would be good to have all moves between locations generate an event message, so that our event co...
6 months ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

Updating Password automatically in the FileAgent

Hello, We are using CD version : IBM_CD_V4.3_UNIX_Linux_Red_Hat. We need to install CD and FileAgent for our multiple internal BU servers. As you know - we need to use username and password for FileAgent. Please note that we are using common ld...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Delivered

allow configurable rows in settings of Integrated File Agent (browser)

settings of Integrated File Agent cdws-ui/setting/fileAgent/viewDirectories rules per page & directories per page setting is 10 by default. Can these BOTH be made configurable so it doesn't reset to 10 each time the page is revisited\reloaded
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Ability to suggest more items to SIM cycle count feature and create count tasks for the day

Once the cycle count scheduler creates the count tasks, customer would like to create additional count tasks for the day manually and count them as a cycle count activity. Customer wants cycle count program to consider these manually created count...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Ability to pick from a specific zone over other zones using sequencing

Our business would like to always pick from backroom zone over salesfloor zone regardless of inventory level Salesfloor - customers shopping area (700+ locations) Backroom - employee only with additional stock to supply salesfloor (611 locations) ...
about 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Delivered

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

In my retail company ABC, an associate can work in multiple stores on different days of week or re-assigned temporarily to work on different store. Apart from store associates, there are district managers (and admin users) who would need to see activities happening in all stores assigned to the district ( or all stores for admin users )

Use case -------------- In my retail company ABC, an associate can work in multiple stores on different days of week or re-assigned temporarily to work on different store. Apart from store associates, there are district managers (and admin use...
over 7 years ago in Store Engagement 4 Delivered

Allow for an upload of the CD export as text file for defining rules

Connect Direct Administration, File Agent Configuration: There is no business justification for the time needed to rebuild a ser file should it ever become corrupt. The File agent configuration has a nice feature to export to text. However the opp...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 5 Delivered

Allow multiple receipts for a purchase order

Many small and medium retailer do not have partners with full EDI capabilities or retailers may not have capabilities to process vendor EDIs. I am working for such a retailer. They create a purchase order in internal ERP system but they do not get...
over 7 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Delivered