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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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Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

DBCS directory/file name support in CD Process

Customers in China often creates directory and file name in Chinese. C:D doesn't support src/dest file path containing DBCS. Request to enahnce the C:D Win/Linux/Unix product by adding an additional parameter in CD Process to specify the encoding ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration

Allocation Safety factor separate from availability safety stock for SHP and PICK delivery methods

We want the ability to shut off the selling of an item using safety factor by setting the safety factor for the item above inventory availability levels but still let orders accumulated in the system be allocated to nodes with availability. In the...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Upload UI component - make file details available for mapping

In a Dialog sceen, when a partner uploads a file using the Upload UI component, the only values available for mapping to an API or XSLT are the file contents in plain-text or Base64 encoded format. We should be able to map the file details to our ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 2 Planned for future release

A Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides

With IBM Consultant Nick Green, we’ve been developing custom management reports in Analytics – one report we haven’t been able to do however is a Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides. Cu...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Adding a description Variable to the activity Roll Out email template

when an activity is rolled out, there is a field that proposes to enter a description of the activity. I would like to bring that description to the email we currently send out to each client when we have assign an activity. This email templates a...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Skipping Payment Confirmation Page

In our the old UI we had to a customization that removed a lot of buttons from the add payment screen. In our case the orders were always $0, but we still had to confirm the payment method. We would like to be able to remove that screen altogether...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

NFS directory restrictions requires world execute permission

Root squash enabled NFS directories cause an issue with C:D requiring world execute permission on every directory in the path when using the upload/download directory parameters. We want to be able to use upload/download restrictions without havin...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Abbreviated State Field

In the old UI we made an enhancement that stopped users from adding a full state name and instead just set it to be 2 characters. In the new UI we would like this to be OOTB. In this case we would like the OMS to provide a list of abbreviated stat...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Functionality already exists

Same Billing and Shipping address button

In the old UI when we created a manual order in the OMS we had to enter both the shipping and billing addresses even though they were the same. In the new UI we would like a button that allowed us to tell the OMS that the addresses are the same an...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration