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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...
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...

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Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Disclose installation documents to users

We have documentation regarding Gentran:Director, but the last update is 2011. It looks obsolete. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sterling-gentrandirector-documentation
over 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Dashboard for the Inflight Protocol relationships

Using Inflight reports we can fetch numerous types of customer and trading partner volumes based on the data. However, we don't have any report or Analytical Dashboard for checking the volumes and health of the Relationship setups and Protocol pods.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight / Relationship Setup: Drop Down to select the POD to ease the search

We have different drop-downs to select the type of relationships in Legacy Inflight. Can we have a drop-down for POD selection as well. So, that we can sort the setups based on POD. So, that Implementer/Support can sort easily based on POD. This a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under 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

Sterling Control Center: Add an overwrite and delete option for Secure Plus trust/keystore cert locations

When SCC is in use for configuring Secure Plus certificates on a CD node the only option available is import. If the certs expire or an import was incorrectly completed there are no options to overwrite or delete the certificate information in SCC...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 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

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Future consideration

1 click to set to Override rules and set to Optimal

Ideally we want the decision status to be Optimal so when I see the potential OOB ROP and OOB Max as 0/0 and the status hold zero I will 'Overide' rules, then change SAP ROP and SAP Max to 0. I think it would be very useful and time saving to have...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists