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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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Support for Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) for deployment on AWS

Customers are asking if B2BI/SFG can be deployed on Amazon Linux 2 on AWS.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

IV doesn't allow syncing negative inventory postion like GIV does.

When an Absolute sync is done for Item-Node combination with -ve value IV ignores it. Where as we have this functionality in GIV
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

IV doesn't provide ability to differentiate various shipnodes by ship node type. As a result events published from IV cannot be filtered and/or distributed over separate channels within the external consumer by ship node type.

Currently in Ship Node configuration only Delivery method configuration is there need additional ability to differentiate DC vs Store so we can define various rules based on Ship Node type
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

A new report in Transparent Supply UI that reflects the number of events sent to the platform per year and month of the EventTime and Country of the Facility that uploads it.

We need a report in the Transparent Supply Dashboard in an “Event Uploads” style that reflects the number of events sent to the platform per year and month of the EventTime (not the time it was uploaded) and Country of the Facility that uploads it...
over 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Allow provided service ordered quantity more than defined standard capacity per day

When Provided Services capacity management solution is implemented, one important use case is missed. If our maximum per day servicing capacity is 3 units per store ( resourcepool) and customer wants to order more than 3 units, the expectation is ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Build and Deploy only the war needed + Build script per Env

IDEA-1: Todays it is not possible to build only selected war of the application that requires rebuild. Every time whole ear is built with all the wars which takes quite a time. It would be great if user can select the required war to be rebuild an...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Support for using NoSQL DB's

We are publishing extremely high amount of daily events and moving the data store into a NoSQL type DB would provide greater efficient and search speeds.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Future consideration

Local "admin" account logon logs should be captured

Recently, we observed one issue with by default local accounts logon logs in Sterling Integrator application. Logs are getting captured when the authentication log is in debug mode. Logs are not getting captured when authentication log is in non-d...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Freeze/Fix Column names on Comparison Matrix

In the Comparison Matrix Widget, when users Add certain columns to view in the matrix, when you scroll to the right, you loose visibility of what each row of information is. can the field names be fixed to the left side of the window pane so as th...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Move the 'Previous Item' and 'Item state' icon to the right hand side of the screen

I personally think it would be more useful to have the 'previous item' sitting next to the 'next item' rather than to the far left of the screen, especially as more companies are moving toward the wider single monitor. I find I'm constantly scanni...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration