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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 consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types.

When doing inventory allocation based on segmentation, OMS should consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types. This feature currently exists in v10. But is needed for v9.5 for...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Restore the Cipher.txt functionality

In Connect:Direct v4.1 for Unix and v4.6 for Windows, we use the Cipher.txt file to limit the selection of cipher suites to strong ones so the spcli.sh "Display CipherSuites" command only shows what's allowed in the Cipher.txt file. This good secu...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Not under consideration

Purging of SolidDB transaction logs

SOLIDDB transactional logs are not getting purged automcatically after the checkpoint interval. We beleive this shoudl be part of the product. This request is to ehnace the product which will take care of purging the Solid DB transaction logs. Reg...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

copy folder's files and sub-folders by C:D

FTP provides a generic feature of copy specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders. For example,we have the the path /path1/path2 and files 1a,1b in /path1;2a,2b in path2.if we copy /path1 by FTP then we copy all these four fils. But C:...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Change how CDW Statistics are gathered

I propose that a change be made to the CDW software to be able to gather CDW Statistics reports in the same format as is used by CDU.We can keep the current CDW Statistics report format desired.This need not be done through the Requester - this co...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct API Independent From C:D Server

We are attempting to use Control Center to manage our instances of C:D and Control Center connects via the C:D API. Some of C:D instances sit in different datacenters behind a load balancer in an active/inactive state. We would like to be able to ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option

Connect Direct for UNIX silent install only has one option to install the client CLI and the server component. The silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option to install.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Attach Documents to Automated Emails

We would like the ability to attach documents in auto-generated emails.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Email Template - Dynamic data fields mapping

We would like an updated email template matrix. In this matrix it should include the email template name, email template usage definition, and the data field mappings. In each template different index numbers insert partner and sponsor specific in...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add partner admin when original partner admin has not registered yet

Currently, it is only possible to send the registration email and the original activity roll-out to one partner administrator. We would like to be able to send the initial registration and activity roll-out to multiple users. Currently the alterna...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration