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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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Inventory Visibility Service | Event Publish | Reservation Event

We would need to use the node level reservation event message to create activity for RTAM to consider this reservation for publishing to all consumers of the inventory.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

POP UP Alert for wrong upload .map/.txo

Client will be benefited as they can start Testing without any hassle
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Functionality already exists

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Creation of an ANSI X12 type tree that supports Plan Member Reporting.

The transaction is actually an 834 but is different from the 005010X220A1 834 used for Benefit Enrollment and Maintenance. The GS08 value for this transaction is 005010X318 and the TR3 was releases in November 2016.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration

Enhance WMQ Suite adapters to support CCDT or CONNECTIONNAMELIST property and move to MQJM

Current WMQ Suite adapter is Based on MQ for JAVA technology and CCDTURL property is not exposed for configuration. Also the MQJB is matured and no further updates to the client is planned by IBM "IBM will make no further enhancements to the IBM M...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

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.
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists

Include ISA information in either the data passed to the hcsvu exit for implementing a type 7 rule in the qualifier file or in the data passed to a type 7 custom user exit

We currently have a requirement to compare one of ISA value to 1000A NM1 values to ensure they are same and it is currently no doable in ITX. We received this as a suggestion from support ticket TS005672303
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Not under consideration

Inflight search using PID as primary rather than advanced search - bypassing date constraints

I ask that Inflight search have a field for PID as a primary search parameter, rather than having to go into advanced search and select process ID for searching - also PID should be unique so it should bypass any date period set on the start and e...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

Inflight - change search behavior for doctype

Currently searching for doctype that does not appear in history returns everything as if no filter is applied. However searching for sender or receiver ID that does not appear in history returns "no records found" - for consistency I feel that doc...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Track Internal Users on PEM When PEM Registration Invite Sent to partner

Currently many users (MFT BA's & Engineers) are utilizing PEM, the number of users utilizing PEM may increase in the future. So there is a need to define a process or mechanism within PEM to track which internal EFX user is sending out new reg...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 4 Not under consideration