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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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getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

myfilegateway download tab

When a producer uploads a file to a mailbox that has an associated routing channel, once the routing is complete the file shows up in the file listing in the producers download tab in myfilegateway. This has caused some concern for some of my prod...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Supply Client Certificate Details to BP launched by HTTP Server Adapter

Details as to the CommonName of the Client Certificate and its Signing Authority would be useful in BP ProcessData to validate that the Client Certificate belongs to the source system that used it, and that it is signed by the correct CA (when mul...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Workflow not Halting for Unmanaged Exceptions

Documentation states: " When no code attribute exists and no match to a defined attribute exists for an onFault element at a level, Sterling B2B Integrator moves to a general onFault (no code attribute) element. If Sterling B2B Integrator does not...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

During cancellation the Charge Amount should not get refunded when the ChargeType configured as "Non Refundable"

There could be some header charges like Donations which shouldn't get refunded when customer cancel the order. There's a existing configuration in Sterling to keep the header charges as non refundable (IsRefundable="N") however it is not working f...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by MM/DD/YYYY

Gentran running on Windows 2019 Data Center, sorts documents by:MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS It should sort as: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS In Windows 2008 R2, it used to sort as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
over 3 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

getProperty to be able to decrypt database managed properties

If we enable property encryption by setting up the yfs.propertyencrypter.class property property encryption works only for file based properties. E.g. properties kept in the yfs.properties and yfs.properties_<module id>_ext files or customer...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Provide for quota-free import of in-store transactions ("take sale" / "cash and carry") for use in association with blind returns / refunds

Today, we may receive the return of an unit/sku which was purchased in-store (cash-and-carry, take sale. NOT an order...) to our distribution center, within a valid return window, with a request for a full refund to the original form of payment. B...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Batch assignment of transactions (esp returns) for agent ownership, review

The idea is three part: 1) Provide UI to allow for manual bulk assignment of tasks to individual customer care agents for work-down. 2) Allow for direct assignment/ownership of transactions/shipments to a given customer care agent, regardless of t...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

Write Debug Traces to a Specific DD instead of Creating Dynamic Rnnnnnn DDs

If the process specific Debug Traces can be written to a specific DD or DDs instead of creating dynamic Rnnnnnn DDs, it could be SPINNED dynamically after the trace completion and it will not cause a usage exposure to system SPOOL.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration