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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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Product class to be made visible in Store UI

In Sterling Store Engagement UI, when we do the inventory look-up, we will not be able to check inventory against each product class. Instead it displays consolidated Inventory across all Product class. It will not be possible for the store user t...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Map name in InFlight Configure columns section.

In the outbound scenario sometimes we have seen for same TP ISA ID we will have different maps being used and having map name in configure column would help to list all the maps being used by the same TP. In some cases we have seen TP comes up wit...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Add support for AES-256 encryption algorithm for data at rest in Global Mailobx

B2Bi already supports AES-256 encryption for data at rest, so global mailbox should offer the same level of encryption.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

To be able to run a report of the maps that are actually being used in the data and how often the map is being used. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Columns so it would allow the Map names to show on the reports.

This will help to determine a strategy around changes and better visibility into our maps' usage. It could be ran as the inbound/outbound activity report is currently ran from within Inflight. Even possibly adding a Mapping in the Configure Column...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Need to Check changes done to Schedule of business process

Schedule of the business process is getting disabled , so need to know how can we check time when the process was disabled and if any ID.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Ability to copy order in Store engagement

Fot Costco, we have a use case where existing member order is looked up and copied over to create a new order. As a Store associate, I should be able to capture the order with copy order functionality which doesn't seem to exist today.
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Rotables Logic Widget

A Functionality around Split Valuation materials to allow for overall right-sizing Core, Repaired, New, Capital materials from SOH and ROP/MAX = How many of each type is needed, how many are "in rotation" where are they, how many are due back eith...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 6 Future consideration