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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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CONFIG CENTER -ERN-Need ERN Notification for transaction in Deferred Status if the Schedule not triggered on time.

Currently, we have notifications to the Customer/Partners for the Red and Yellow, Overdue Transactions and Customers also looking for the notification where transactions in Deferred status because Schedule not ran that particular time and transact...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Functionality already exists

1 click to set to Override rules and set to Optimal

Ideally we want the decision status to be Optimal so when I see the potential OOB ROP and OOB Max as 0/0 and the status hold zero I will 'Overide' rules, then change SAP ROP and SAP Max to 0. I think it would be very useful and time saving to have...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to track parts transfers out from a site and to the receiving site

Useful for tracking the flow of transferred inventory, including dead and re-deployable inventory, and which site are supporting this process.
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

System rejected materials due to refresh to the original settings from the initial submission

Materials that are not approved before the MRO IO system refresh, either Delta or monthly, are rejected and returned to the Items list in MRO IO in the base state that they were originally in prior to review by planners or maintenance personnel. T...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Control center rule mute option for specific timestamp

We want IBM control center monitor to not send alert during daily restart of SFG nodes.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Need consent before exposing customer's name to others in Sandbox

If you try to register a facility, you can see other users in the drop-down list, but uses have not accepted the exposure to others.
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Functionality already exists

inFlight filter

Somtime, I need to reprocess the inbound ORDERS messages. I would like to add a filter on the reference number. It should be displayed only once, none doubloon. Then I can reprocess all inbound order messages without doubloon.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 3 Functionality already exists

Cognos reports extract through standard integration mechanisms

We have an inhouse alerting, monitoring and reporting capability that is dependent on receiving data from various applications. We are writing custom reports in Cognos reporting suite to access the data that is needed to deliver our requirements. ...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Functionality already exists