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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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Bypass SNIP 3 and 4 to Allow Denied Claims to Flow Through

We have a client use case where we need to relax validations in order to allow denied claims to flow through that requires us to validate on SNIP 1, 2 and 7 (i.e. bypass SNIP 3 and 4). This is because denied claims might fail on SNIP 3 and 4 and h...

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

CLA2Server publicCertAlias

Now publicCertAlias value of the Command line adapter2 server (CLA2Server) only support the leaf certificate instead of root/intermediate certificate for client authentication with CLA2Client. So it means that all CLA2Client adapter must be use th...
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
27 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 Not under consideration

ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT Event raised for Transfer IN and Transfer OUT

Hi team, Currently, ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT event is raised only when charge type CHARE (+/-) is created in the system. Event is not raised specifically for Transfer In and Transfer Out type transactions. In case of return receipt approval after e...
28 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

ITXA - GET multiple codelist columns at once

In Sterling Integrator, we are currently able to pull multiple columns from a code list entry in one SELECT statement, as below: SELECT SenderCode, TEXT1, TEXT2 INTO VAR_SENDERCODE,VAR_TEXT1,VAR_TEXT2 FROM CODELIST WHERE NAME = "DSV_STD_EXCEED_RP_...
28 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Under review

Bring back the ability to export the data in OH, similar to what we could do with App Console.

We need to have the ability to export data from OH, similar to what we had in App Console. This data could be used in conjunction, or replacement of some reports that customers are looking for. In addition, the OH search screens, when returning da...
30 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Can we include the "Last Reviewed By" and/or "Last updated By" be included in the Item View Grid?

Can we include the "Last Reviewed By" and/or "Last updated By" be included in the Item View Grid?
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Under review

Under the equipment tab, we would like to be able to open an individual equipment and see all material spares consumed/on a BoM for that equipment.

From the equipment tab, we would like to be able to click on a piece of equipment and immediately see all the materials that are linked to and/or have been consumed by that equipment and be able to navigate to those materials in the tool.
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Needs more information