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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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Global Mailbox needs to have a sample Mailbox Message Delete BP or Documentation demonstrating the best methods for deleting Global Mailbox Messages

Currently Global Mailbox does not have any out of the box Mailbox Message Delete BP. B2Bi has the Mailbox Scheduled Delete Service which can be configured to delete traditional mailbox messages. This service can list all the mailboxes and allow fo...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Planned for future release

Track users' changes for each item

This feature can be implemented as a new widget in item form or a new tab under Recent activity widget along with Note and workflow and only should display changes that users have made to an item. It's kind of an audit log and can be used in troub...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

EDD calculation should factor carrier holidays and weekends

Currently there is no capability to set Carrier holidays and weekend schedule that can be factored in EDD calculation. Padding-up days to regular schedule isn't a great option. If holidays and weekends) are not accounted for, the delivery date cal...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Transaction ID should be treated as unique by Sterling IV regardless of when it is posted. This will help to avoid duplicate transaction updates into the Platform.

Currently, Sterling IV has the ability to not reprocess a transaction with the same transaction id only for 15 mins. But at BigLots, we have business cases wherein the same transaction can be reposted after 15 days to one month. We have discussed ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem. cert auth is only available in unix and windows version. Our orgs have a large tandem nodes that are critical to organisation.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Standardize SFTP/FTP Server and client logs for external dashboard consumption like ELK

We are using the SFTP / FTP server and client logs to monitor user activity via Dashboard. We want to provide communication level visibility to our business users from our enterprise application that stores all our B2B data. Its very difficult to ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Search InFlight data by JMS Message ID

Give the ability for the InFlight user to search for messages based on JMS Message ID
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Showing of names of tasks and dialog when one hovers a mouse cursor

there are some tasks which have tens of dialog. The dialog names are too long to be fully visible on the icon. It is cumbersome to everytime right click+edit to see the dialog name while searching for the dialog to review/modify
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Increase the capacity of UI to accommodate API response and provide it as a download

Many times, the API outputs become huge over time due to which they do not fit the max threshold of characters set. Can we increase the threshold and also provide the option to download the output as it is convenient to analyze it in a text editor...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Planned for future release