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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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Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to deploy database changes such as adding a new field ahead of the full deployment.

Due to it taking an extra hour about for the DB entity updates and the required re-org activity a deployment that adds a new field takes longer than a normal deployment. Due to this want to be able to run it separately just like the on-prem versio...
about 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Verify ControllerWorkflow is functioning properly in 6.0.2.1 with regard to force terminate

ControllerWorkflow.sh doesn't seem to be force terminating a BP when it is in a halting or active state when the BP shows it is in wait queue.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Add flag to ManageItem to trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV

When child items are created by manageItem, it would be really useful to be able to automatically trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV via a flag so that the child item is associated with the model item in IV - so that the IV Availability Product ...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Add the HIPAA 834 318 and 277DRA transaction to the HIPAA pack

The state of New York is requiring insurance carriers to use the 834X318 and 277DRA transactions. These transactions are currently not in the HIPAA pack. This will cause compliance checking not to work and the mapping type tree is not available fo...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 5 Not under consideration

Be able to add tracking number when creating return

In the old UI we created an enhancement that allowed users to add tracking numbers in the Call Center UI when creating a return. In the new UI we would like for this to be an OOTB option
about 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Ability to define picking capacity at order line level

This is copied over from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=59894 What is the requested functionality Picking capacity* is maintained for each fulfilment unit (STO, CDC,CPU etc) on Order Line level. T...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Porduct scan is not allowed by product id for the orders having products with same item id and multiple UOMs. It is applicable on all scans in store application.

We have a Retail customer whose catalog allows multiple items created with same item id but different UOMs (EACH, CASE). When order products are scanned by using item id, it returns two items and error pops out saying multiple items found for ente...
about 6 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Future consideration