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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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In FinPay PLUS 10.2.3.0 euroSIC messages are missing Business Application Header (BAH)

In the euroSIC schema, the BAH is based on the "classic" head.001.001.01 ( https://www2.swift.com/mystandards/#/mx/head.001.001.01 ) . The header is required for all euroSIC messages.
16 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

T2S doesn't use the classic <env:envelope> structure

In FinPay PLUS 10.2.3.0, T2S messages use BizData element as the 'envelope' instead of the generic 'env:Envelope' . This complicates the management of maps. In T2S, we understand head.002 has a very specific behavior which was used as the base for...
28 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Handling new zipcodes in OMS

Handling new zipcodes in OMS. Currently OMS does not have any logic to allocate/identify orders from a Zipcode which is not available on the DB. Copuntries update the list of postal codes every year and more zip codes will be added year on year. C...
30 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Automated UNSPSC Classification functionality

Since MRO IO team is working on enhancing the features for catalogue cleansing, can you please consider introducing a feature to automate UNSPSC classification using LLM (AI). This will benefit all your clients who currently do not use UNSPSC in t...
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Under review

Include validation for NBOR SaFIR messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate NBOR SaFIR messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. Can the next FinPay PLUS package include the necess...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

API and Events to provide Fulfillable Availability (available quantity that are fulfillable) by doing sourcing rule discovery to get distribution group or nodes or node types to generate network availability

Omnichannel Retailers would require to show what is the available quantity that are fulfillable to their customers based on where they are getting it delivered to / collected from (regional sourcing), what are the various product attributes (such ...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

Include ECMS marketplace in FinPay PLUS package

To follow the adoption of the ISO20022 standard over all domestic markets, the FinPay PLUS package should include the ECMS maps.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review

Enable Notifications of CHUB Map Transfers

When a map is transferred or assigned to a new person, we would like them to receive a notification the map has been transferred to them. For example, when the developer finishes the map and assigns it for the reviewer, the reviewer would receive ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Under review

Capacity calculation to honor Node's locale

Since Capacity is used to control the number of fulfillments to be done from a particular ship node (either Store or DC), its critical to have the capacity calculation is done in the DC's locale instead of UTC. We have this requirement at Lands En...
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review