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Have the ability to code in the "user authorization record" to limit concurrent transfers/sessions a mapping can have at ONE time.

So one UserID on a Node cannot use up all the allocated "SECONDARY SESSION"
4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS Submitted

Show data for deleted items

Provide read access to data for materials that have been deleted. Currently I must keep an offline database of all historical materials so that I have a baseline for reporting progress metrics, because any materials flagged for deletion in SAP are...
2 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization Submitted

Support in the OMS Agentic AI toolkit for consuming and referencing documents stored in external repositories.

Currently, AI agents lack the ability to access or utilize external documents, limiting their effectiveness in real-world enterprise scenarios. The enhancement request is to enable: Integration with external document sources (e.g., SharePoint, blo...
2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Submitted

User login based logo and customization for AI chatbot

Enable dynamic branding and messaging customization in the chatbot based on the CSR’s assigned enterprise or organizational context. Currently, the AI chatbot supports only a static logo and uniform messaging for all users. The enhancement request...
2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Submitted

Logging and troubleshooting of AI agent

We request enhanced logging and analysis capabilities for AI interactions to support effective troubleshooting. Currently, available logs and trace levels are insufficient to diagnose issues, especially for non-reproducible scenarios. The solution...
3 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Submitted

Clean up sub-directories in purge process

Global Mailbox purge only removes files from the storage bucket. This means that over time the filesystem is left with a very large number of empty sub-directories which slows down processing and extends backup times due to the need to backup thou...
3 days ago in Global Mailbox Submitted

UAT testing by key user community members

Problem Statement Recent releases have unintentionally impacted MIO data (e.g., loss of thousands of workflow items), leading to significant rework. Request Introduce a pre-release validation step where updates are deployed to a sandbox (or simila...
5 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization Submitted

SSP should have a setting to configure "allowlist" usernames which should accept regex express for allowed user names

The SSP must provide a setting to configure, such as a **"Users Allowlist"**, where we can set up a list of usernames and/or a regular expression. This configuration should ensure that the SSP allows connections only from those users that match th...
17 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Future consideration

Block traffic from an IP address, if rate of connections exceeds a configured value.

There should be a mechanism/setting in SSP where we can configure the maximum number of concurrent connections allowed from any IP. And if the number of connections exceed the maximum limit, the SSP should block any more connections from that IP a...
17 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Under review

Human readable PDF download for PEPPOL & E-Invoicing

3 separate customers have asked me for the ability to download human readable PDF for E-Invoicing and PEPPOL this week. It seems the majority of our competitors have this functionality already and with the current flood of E-Invoicing Mandates thr...
18 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) Under review

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