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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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Order Management on Cloud dataload to use DB Index and runstats for table YFS_ITEM

During an OMoC initial dataload there can be a need to upload 1M+ item records to the YFS_ITEM DB table. This table is initially empty and non indexed. This can make the dataload INSERT take a very long time when using the ManageItem API. There is...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Automated Cognos reconfiguration for High Availability

Installing ICC in a High Availability environment requires steps taken to reconfigure Cognos as detailed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_6.1.1/com.ibm.help.scc.install.doc/scc_ensure_cognos_server_connection_HA.html Th...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Undertake housekeeping for all database tables

Under ICC database tuning, there is a comment that indicates that records need to be manually pruned from a number of tables: The CC_PROCESS, CC_PROCESS_DVG, CC_FILE_TRANSFER, and CC_FILE_TRANSFER_DVG tables contain the summarized information f...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network)

There is a requirement from customer to have Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network).
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration

Wrap indicator when viewing large files to stay during Download

When viewing the X12 in In-Flight you add the delimiter so that the view wraps correctly. When you download it becomes one long stream. Need to reflect this wrapping in the download.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Order Managment on Cloud INT Server instance to log failing MQ message MSGId and create alert.

Within an OMoC (Order Management on Cloud) environment an INT server instance (IntgName) integrates with the MQ QMGR for reading/writing MQ messages for OMoC integration processing. When the MQGET of a message from an inbound queue fails we see a ...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

data anonymization/masking (typetree attribute + test mode)

There are 2 requirements that lead to this idea: 1.) external requirements like GDPR force us to anonymize/pseudonymize data in non-production environments2.) A-B-testing would be much easier if we can mask dynamic attributes (e.g. timestamps) T...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

IV actions should be allowed to enable at onboarded enterprise level

Currently, the IV inventory snapshot and supply/demand change actions work only when enabled at DEFAULT level.
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Sterling OMS on My SQL.

As part of migrating to open source. We would like to explore options running OMS in MySQL.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration