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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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Implement 'Hold' for a bulk product order for up to 30mins (or XX mins) as per OMoC SF ticket TS002131182

Add following functionality for 'On Hold' bulk items up to XX mins. As per following scenario ... We have created a remorse hold, to hold order's for 30 mins. To resolve the hold, we have created hold processing agent which is abstract transaction...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

UCD Self Status / SST Final Status of a process to reflect the success / failure of underlying action.

Following on from Shop Direct SF ticket TS002163187, the CDT 'Import CDT' process was failed because of a known failure issue regarding PLT_PROPERTY and PLT_PROPERTY_METADATA being Append Only. The UCD process expected this failure of the called C...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists

Allow for search on File Names (src, dest) in Unix / Linux

This is a great functionality and already present in CD for Windows. Can we please get the same functionality in Unix/Linux
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Allow multiple simultaneous deployments to different environments.

With IBM owning the OMoC deployment process I expect the processes to be somewhat different though the same general capability to exist. The ability to do simultaneous deployments certainly exists outside of OMoC with IBM OMS, the same should be p...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Check for inventory availability while adding a line for reship, the CSR should have immediate feedback as to whether it can be fulfilled.

Currently in the call center the reship function blindly adds the reship order line without doing an inventory check. I don't know that it needs to be as involved as a wizard such as adding a line though it does need to be more involved and at lea...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future 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 co...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Provide additional granularity for the UPPER.CASE= initialization parameter

Currently, as documented in the C:D for zOS V5.2 Administration Guide, the UPPER.CASE= parameter determines if initialization messages are send to the console in Upper (YES) or Lower/Mixed case (NO). However, this parameter also dictates if inform...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Is a defect

Enable purging data from transaction tables directly, instead of first purging to history

We currently have userexit purgeOrderToExternalDataStoreUE for purgeOrder. This was provided by IBM on our request. We are using this currently in production. This only covers orders and its related entities, but not shipments, receipts, work orde...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ref Case #:TS001675506, ETS and EAD not getting updated for pickup Orders (Chained Orders) when there is change in PO ETA

Whenever there is change in PO ETA, For Pickup Orders Orders (Chained Orders) ETS, EAD are not updated correctly. More details can be found at case#: TS001675506 Link: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001H8r3pAAB/ets-not-getting-update...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future 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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Not under consideration