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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...
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...

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Include API monitoring/output in CD Logs

API connects to the CD product can be for File Transfer submissions or stat gathering for another use such as log checks. These API have a max value configurable on the local node entry in CD netmap file but currently there is no logging of API ac...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Adapter Containers: Allow container-specific JVM arguments

Right now, if you want to add custom JVM arguments to adapter containers (say for JVM monitoring), this is done via the Performance Tuning wizard. The wizard provides only one field for custom JVM arguments, which are then applied to all adapter c...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Suppress the diagnostic data being written to CDESTAE for the SCPA019I error

We observed that there is a dump of the file in DD CDESTAE after the process failed with SCPA019I An input LRECL > output LRECL detected for compressed file. It is an exposure of business data so it would be appreciated if it can be disabled or...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Provisioner activities should acknowledge parent PEM activities on failures

The provisioner activities should send acknowledgement to parent PEM activities on failures, this is must needed else the Parent activity doesn't know what happened to the triggered provisioner activities. The Sponsor admins will be not notified a...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables.

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables. As most of the queries/monitoring and reporting are performed on the ACTIVE tables. These indices may not be always needed on the HISTORY tables.
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Enhance the Excel adapter design to accommodate\control Excel worksheet cell properties for data added by the Excel adapter.

We would like to create $ input amounts as a 'CURRENCY' field. Since the adapter only handles output as General TEXT format we are confined to this format and no other.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Not under consideration

To introduce OOTB flag for backordering of remaining qty on change release

Currently in Sterling Order Management V9.5 On TO release, a shipment request is sent to WH. Two flags "ShipShipment" and "ShortShipment" will be sent in ShipConfirm message by WH. If ShipShipment is Y, OMS can expect more shipments and if ShortSh...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

InFlight - Selected Business Views hover updated to include NOT selected in list

Update the "eyeball" hover in InFlight that shows active business views, to include both the selected and de-selected ones, in some differentiated way. Example (the deselected view in this case might be one that is only used to house Managed AS2 v...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Graph to display fulfillment plan for a particular order

being capable to see a graph related to fulfillment plan of a particular order: where/when each item is sourced, with TO and PO generated to transfer items between nodes, items merge visualized with dates at a particular node then at the end, deli...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

DB Extract agent should be extracting data more frequently

Currently the field 'FrequencyInHours' in the DB Extraction agent configuration defines how frequently the data can be extracted. The min value for FrequencyInHours is 1 hour. This would mean that we can only pick up data that is older than 1 hour...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 4 Not under consideration