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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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Visibility to Customers on Inflight

Hello - With the new Inflight coming in, it was expected that the visibility to customers would be enhanced. For ex: If they just key in the file name or document reference number (PO, Invoice number, etc) - They get to pictorially see the file tr...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Implement old IBM computers in every school in Africa

Micro-Recyc-Coopération is a social economy and international cooperation organization active since 2003 based in Montreal (Quebec-Canada). The mandate of our activity is to computerize educational establishments in the South and to raise public a...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Not under consideration

Add Control Center monitoring capability for DATA EXPRESS OPEN PLATFORM (vendor DATA443)

TSYS recently went through a merger with Global Payments. As a result of the merger, some business/operations functions between the two companies have been consolidated. Global Payments utilizes Data Express Open Platform by DATA443. There is not ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to issue a common build that includes all extensions

In the on-prem world, we would build custom extensions and issue smcfs build. In the cloud world, we are required to create UI extension jars (for call center, and other apps) and drop the respective jar files under respective application WEB-INF ...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Managing IV connections

Safestart properties file is used internally by the product to connect to IV. Since it is not exposed to outside world, there is no way to read the values from custom code. If there is a way to read this properties file from the custom code, it wo...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Not under consideration

Standardize Connect:Direct messages

Currently, Connect:Direct has multiple message qualifiers, making automation difficult. requirement is for the Connect:Direct address-space to use a consolidated standard message prefix
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Debugging option in SI Map Editor

Debugging in sterling Integrator map editor is a bit complex and time-consuming process, it has many limitations and there is no user friendly of displaying error messages. Currently it will support only 26 CERROR statements in the translation. So...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to the file adapter to alter cardsetting TargetRule::Target::Transaction

Currently one is dependent on the outputcard setting if a file is created or not. It's not possible to pass a parameter/setting to make sure a file is only CreateOnContent, resulting in zero-byte files if the setting is Create. The same applies to...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 4 Not under consideration

Add option to HTTP adapter to set the GSK-var DTX_GSK_SSL_EXTN_SERVERNAME_REQUEST

It's currently only possible to have 1 server/ip in this env. var : DTX_GSK_SSL_EXTN_SERVERNAME_REQUEST This is global to all mappings/adapters This enhancement would make it possible to set this GSK-var per mapping/adapter if more than 1 server y...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

Different safety factor % of onhand buffer to be set for each Node Type

Bussiness needs to mask an article with item node combination as there might be different scenario's where the store decides not to sell an item even if there is an inventory in the store. So we are looking if there is any other configuration whic...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration