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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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Unable to add charge per line once order is invoiced.

Requirement is to create informational charge for line after order is invoiced. Following below steps followed. Once order is invoiced. call change order to add informational change i.e. ChangePerLine and ChargePerUnit. ChargePerUnit is getting up...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

CD for system i does not have possibility IFS directories and libraries restriction as on other platforms

In CD for unix is possible to define restriction for download and source directories in user map configuration on local functional user. I do not see this possiblity on CD for system i, Please could you add this functionality also for transfer fro...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Increase the maximun runnable C:D session from 99 to *NOMAX or a higher limit

Currently, the maximum active C:D session is 99, when the session limit is reached, and new C:D job is initiated , it will abend with CDE0200 and the C:D job have to be retried again.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

I need a C:D Parameter whichs forces C:D to open a new session for each submitted process

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over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enable Searching in In-flight based on key words from "User Entered Comments"

Customer's business users might enter comments in the InFlight portal related to case number or ticket number from their CRM application. This can even be a ticket number from IBM's ticketing system (salesforce). They would like to search Inflight...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Better integration between manageOrganizationHierarchy and Calendars

The API for managing organizations allows the caller to specify the receiving, shipping and business calendars, but only by specifying the calendar key. The key is typically a system generated value which is unique to the environment and therefore...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to create EVAL() function to calculate final value from excel formula

My input is Excel (excel adapter). Excel cell is having mathematical functions (ex: =100+200-50). While execution data is reading as 100+200-50. But my requirement is to map the final value i.e 250.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Buyer Remorse Hold getting resolved while adding new line to an existing Order

After the order is created and imported into the OMS, buyer remorse hold will get applied to the order for about 0 to 30 mins depending on the business requirement to enable any order modifications at this particular time interval, stopping from r...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Encryption support using the ITX Email adapter

Currently there is no encryption support using the ITX Email adapter. Resource is defined as below with inet protocol which uses SMTP. -PROTO inet -RAW -SERVER xxx.xxxx.com We would like to have the encryption with Email adapter to enable security.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings?

Can we have a report generated every month, which should show how many times the system was down and report the timings? Say, there was an unwanted outage due to some issue, the report should show the timings and duration of the outage.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Performance 1 Not under consideration