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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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Ability to rename a windows server nodename or add an additional "alias" node name of sorts

In our environment we came up with the decision to use an alias node naming convention, where our customers create an alias address for a Connect Direct server i.e alias-name.domain.com. We take the alias-name part and use that as the Connect Dire...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Let us decide if YFS_INVENTORY_ITEM "select for update" will be used during API calls

For many models, a "select for update" is essential. In our case, our items are tightly controlled, so we do not expect to need to create inventory item records that can then be promised or ordered. We would like to have the choice in findInventor...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Adding support for NTLM and IWA (Kerberos) proxy authentication

My company cant allow single authentication for the proxy, your report application does not support NTL or IWA authentication
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Automated solar aquaponic garden

To help speed up the growing process. Each plant from seed to harvest is programmed through blockchain. I’d like to build onto the project by adding cannabis cryptocurrency insurance with a cannabis fund under 506 b.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Inventory demand and Supply entries should not be made to additional tables for Non Hot items after enabling hot sku

It is not acceptable to have record put into the additional tables for items that are not hot. We are this behaviour after enabling the Hotsku feature in 9.3. All the items are marked as having infinite inventory but the demand is being synced w...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

It should be possible for Control Center to handle multiple SSL/TLS keys in its keystore

Currently can Control Center only work with one unique key in its keystore. When using SEAS authentication this certificate must be defined with both Server and Client Authentication Enhanced Key Usage (EKU). It should be possible (as any other c...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Provide count for the number of items we select on Config Center - CTE and PROD.

When we log into CTE or PROD and go to customer business alias. Go under Translation section and navigate through Basic Translation, Codelist, Deferred Processing, Document Extraction, Envelopes, Global control numbers, Maps, Sequence Numbers, Sta...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enable client certificate authentication configuration in Inflight for HTTPs Setup

HTTPs allows both Basic Authentication and Client certificate authentication.Inability of setting up client certificate authentication in SCBN for HTTPs is upsetting the client who prefers to have one connection setup against multiple , potentiall...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 4 Not under consideration

To make addition of Comments manadatory in Config Centre as best prctice while editing envelopes

As part of the Watson Customer Engagement team we onboard new partner for our clients into SCBN solution . Onboarded solutions like envelopes often need modifications based on ticket PER/Support cases requests . Currently when we edit an en envelo...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

Improve on C:D z/OS the caching all of the RACF userid support on the File Transfer incoming traffic

Description: To reduce the allocation time of a file, would be better to implement on the C:D z/OS the caching of all userid that RACF (ACEE) support on the inbound traffic, that is basically to memorize the accesses and minimize the queries to th...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration