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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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Request for support running Connect:Direct Windows in the CLOUD with new MS Server and SQL

We would like to deploy our C:D Windows into the Cloud using Google Cloud for one instance and Microsoft Azure for another. We would like to see certification for running C:D Windows in those environments as well as supporting MS Server 2016 and M...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Item Level Distribution Groups in API calls

Currently Distribution Group information is passed at cart level. And one cart can have only one distribution group information. We would like it to to be passed at Item level. meaning Each API call should be able to carry more than on DG and th...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Consolidate Call Center and Store Engagement into a single Customer Engagement Solution

The idea there are separate solutions needed for customer engagement is antiquated and driven more by either poor organizational structures and silos, and/or the current market environment of solutions. IBM has the ability to take the lead in this...
over 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Return Order Invoice should not automatically reduce the LineCharge(DISCOUNT). If it is more than LineTotalWithoutTax but equals to LineTotalWithTax

Scenario: A Sales order is Created-Scheduled-Releases-Shipped-Invoiced(Either Order or Shipment Invoicing), Item theft reported, Customer care gave entire line total as a discount. Later item was identified at a Carrier location, and processed as ...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

PGP support part of OpenPGP adapter

Currently OpenPGP adapter supports GPG but not PGP, We request to enable support for pgp part of OpenPGP adapter. also we need to have a way to encrypt data in-memory / In-flight instead of writing plain text into disk and then encrypting.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Better way to extract user info related to users setup under Functional Authorities to show their level of access in easily view able report for AUDIT reasons

For PCI Audits we have to confirm user info on who has access to our C:D in Functional Authorities and what their level of access is GENUSR or ADMIN, currently the export user config dumps all this info for users in Functional Authorities as well ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Straight up HTTP calls from PEM as opposed to only REST / XML API calls

Being able to do form posts or just any basic HTTP call will allow PEM to integrate with more systems.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Expose as GUI configuration element (or similar) common X12 and EDIFACT standard deviations that require type tree changes. For example, non-standard delimiters. Applies to ITXA X12 and EDIFACT validation maps as well as X12 and EDIFACT mapping inside ITX.

Supporting a set of common deviations from ANSI mapping standards would increase solution flexibility and make ITX/ITXA more appealing to customers as it would more readily adapt to their specific business needs.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Not under consideration

ITXA support Bulk Update Codelist API without Version Number

Implementation-Version: 9.0.0.8(17)Build-Date: 20181003.0829 Case Number: TS001467199 Note: We are referring here Bulk Update Codelist API . Not the Update Codelist API We want to use the API from Sterling Business process The below...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 3 Not under consideration

Enhanced Imputed Weight Logic

Enhance imputed weight logic in Optimizer to account for product hierarchies that are not consistent in weight / dimension classifications. Example: Department ABC | Personal Care - includes assortment from toothbrush to air conditioners. Pro...
over 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Product Functionality 0 Not under consideration