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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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Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Latest SAPJCo version required for fast serialization to SAP Adapter configuration for ISOVER

ISOVER (SGCIO) one of the major customer of IBM in B2B, wants to change the connection from C:D to S4 HANA but the ISOVER's SAP admin team feels that when IBM upgrades the SAP adapter with latest SapJCo, the current serialization / connection issu...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

Solution to Prevent Inventory Availability going negative

Currently when an inventory is added through cycle count or removed through Transfer Order we have a default segment as WALK_IN for IV system. But in some cases it is leading to negative inventory in WALK_IN segment when there is inventory only in...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Passwordless connection to built-in local PostgreSQL

This enhancement should allow to use alternate access options to local PostgreSQL other than locally encrypted password to PostgreSQL user. Proposed solutions include: certificate-based authentication (preferred, if technically feasable) password ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Expose Max Stops property at API request level instead of currently as static, system wide

This will improve performance when running findInventory and other sourcing APIs. A high value of Max Stops has a significant performance impact so having the ability to dynamically set this property at API request level will add a lot of value.
7 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 7 Future consideration

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.
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service for communication between cross account for S3 bucket. This is private S3 bucket.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Ensure failover detection ping from SSP PS can be recognized as such in B2B

These pings are causing literally thousands of errors in our C:D logs on B2B every hour - as the C:D server adapter can see the pings hitting the port but recognizes that they are not valid C:D sessions. A recent health check performed by IBM/Sabr...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration