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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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SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

Rules Based Safety Stock to consider Future Available date

The further into the future the available stock is, the less certain it is that it will arrive on time. We want to set safety stock rules based on the future availability date so that we don't expose more stock with less risk, and less stock with ...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

CD Windows: Support por codepages ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15

Actually Cd Windows uses mlang.dll of Microsoft for codepage transaltion. This mlang.dll can't work with codepages ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. CD Windows must be changed to use another APIs to support ISO Latin codepages
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Quantum safe encryption for Connect:Direct data exchange

All Connect:Direct customers
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

Change basic status/return value of Business Process

We have a custom business process defined, where we are retrying the failed step, especially the SFTP connection failures We were able to retry the failed step, but the basic status stay as error, in turn causing the jobs triggered from TWS failed...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Under review

Unable to take backup for property files from custom GUI in Sterling B2B INtegrator - 6.1.2.0

Currently we are running Sterling Integrator version 6.1.2 on OCP. There is no option for us to take the backup of property files from Custom GUI.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

API to list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for node

IV API to get a list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for pick by node. This would be simpler than getting a list of all items and then passing each item into Get Item Fulfillment Options.
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Ability to track parts transfers out from a site and to the receiving site

Useful for tracking the flow of transferred inventory, including dead and re-deployable inventory, and which site are supporting this process.
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

Inflight search using PID as primary rather than advanced search - bypassing date constraints

I ask that Inflight search have a field for PID as a primary search parameter, rather than having to go into advanced search and select process ID for searching - also PID should be unique so it should bypass any date period set on the start and e...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Functionality already exists