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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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Projected Demand Widget

Our clients have been asking for this functionality independently and every time they see Change Request module they ask "can a user submit a forecast? that can be updated in the record?" Currently that is not possible.
14 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
16 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Have an option for Items List View "Notes" icon be visible for Item Notes only

Currently the "Notes Icon" in the Items List view is intended to let the user know if there are relevant notes for the user, however notes are created every time an item is submitted through workflow, so many items present as having a "Note", when...
20 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Recalculating Inventory Availability Based on Item Attribute Changes

Existing inventory availability calculations do not automatically adjust to changes in item attributes such as Department or Product Line, leading to potential inaccuracies in stock levels and order fulfillment. The recalculation should also be ap...
20 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

KPI Monitoring - Credit consumption

We need to have real time monitoring solution for following up our consumption of AppPoints and other KPIs: Real time ideally Possibility to consolidate the data per day, over a period, per month, per year. Possibility to compare the consumption w...
23 days ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Show payload content in the Transparent Supply interface

We find it particularly difficult to send and view payloads using the IBM Transparent supply graphical interface. Using the interface, we can only send payloads using spreadsheets and it is difficult to check if they have been successfully uploade...
23 days ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Future consideration

Querying payloads with the products search endpoint

We use custom fields for our products that we store into payloads. When using the search endpoint /outbound/v2/products, we would like to use our custom fields as filters (maybe as a key/value input). We already use the tags to filter on a categor...
23 days ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Future consideration

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

We need an ability to create user name upto 60characters and email address upto 68 characters in B2Bi

We have a requirement to onboardi-ng partners with the user name upto 60 chars and email address up to 68 chars, and currently we noticed b2bi only allows 36chars in the user name field and 64chars in the email address field, and so can you provid...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration