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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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Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required.

Requesting sub-sequence number capture to track line item or sub-level groups if required. Currently we have sequence number generation for every map run. But we encounter request from client to assign sequence number for every line item and updat...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Modify existing reservation

A network level reservation has been made against a Distribution Group. The consumer proceeds through the checkout journey and now that reservation needs to be modified and made at the node level (eg consumer has now chosen to pick up in store). W...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Disable save button until any configuration change is made

Prevents update to configuration when no changes are made.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Planned for future release

OCP cluster/Linux SFG instance : Integrated authentication of MSSQL 2019 database

SFG setup using MSSQL 2019 database, Current our MSSQL supports only integrated authentication, we need to inputs here. 1. Does SFG supports integrated authentication? 2. if yes how to pass the custom parameter in the connection string "integrated...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Store UI: Requirement to capture user making inventory adjustments/cycle count approvals

In Store UI, when we perform inventory adjustments, user info who did the adjustment is not stored/displayed in store UI nor it is passed in the webhook inventory adjustment subscription. Impact: User will not be able to backtrack who performed in...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement 0 Not under consideration

Ability to trigger the Supply or Demand buckets inventory picture for an item on demand/need basis

Currently client systems are subscribed to supply change and demand change events from IV over webhooks to reflect inventory buckets for client front end needs. For any missing events due to any reason, there is no functionality in IV to retrigger...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Include an Identifier to differentiate between the Inventory dbavailabilitycache message triggered by a delta vs full sync(publish_all trigger)

In our integration with IV services, we encountered scenarios where a full sync is being consumed by MW system and in the interim delta change comes in, the delta change processing is delayed because of the lengthy processing of full sync messages...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Monitor Aspera Nodes

It would be great idea if we can have monitoring enabled for Aspera Nodes and secure proxy, the reason I would say is as Aspera provides one of the MFT solution which enables us to transfer huge data and since it has the ability to do so lot of or...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 5 Not under consideration

Enhance Search Abilities for InFlight Archive

It is EXTREMELY difficult to find documents in InFlight Archive because there are such limited search options. When looking for data, I most often search by envelope name or map name. Neither of those options are available. We also have many partn...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Propagate configuration via batch

This new idea is to request that Sterling Control Center Director allow configuration propagation, in this case from Connect:Direct (userfile, netmap, InitPams, Secure+), via Batch, and not just via the graphical interface.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Functionality already exists