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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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Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improved Program Reporting from PEM

It's very difficult to know the status of our program even at the most basic level. I'm looking for some basic numbers such as: Number off Invites How many have started? How many have done nothing? How many are totally complete with the p...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

IfFlight: provide URL and/or AS2 name in details for inbound documents (specifically when no config)

When we received a no config error, we had no idea WHO sent the data. I did assume it was AS2, but could not narrow down where it came from to notify partner the ISA/GS ID was incorrect. A day later, I received the information from support - and w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Permit for quota-free import of in-store TAKE SALES (not orders) for one-stop shop in customer order history

Orders are not a majority of overall enterprise-wide transactions, and the OMS is not expected to process them in any regard, ie settlement or fulfillment - This is all taken care of by the POS platform. As such, it is not of benefit for OMS to sp...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

GTIN based Inventory Availability and Scheduling in OMS CoC and Inventory Visibility

For our current client, inventory items are uniquely identified using UPCs(not to be confused with UPC in generic sense) and not SKUs, while the selling catalog identifies items using SKUs. These UPCs can change every year for the same item. For e...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Product improvement for reading pdf and ZPL data along with image format

Currently OMS Provides SFS Feature which helps to print data only if it is in image format. FedEx and UPS carrier system supports image data. But other carriers like postAT, DHL send response in pdf data or ZPL data form. IBM does not support thos...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Not under consideration

Report availability at the Segment level.

Currently the monitorItemAvailability API and all RTAM capabilities report inventory at the node and item level, to some degree including tag information. The RTAM information doesn't have any references to segment. An example usage of segmentatio...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Functionality to test profiles

We need some method to test a configured SEAS engine before integrating it with the rest of our environment. Currently we can only test it by pointing SSP to the new engine and attempting to log in. This means that we can't test the SEAS config in...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Support for calling scripts following completion of transfer

The sender of a file can specify a script to call once the file transfer is complete. There are customers that will not implement this. How about a way for the receiver to specify a script to call once the transfer is completed.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

EBICS Server / Client support of xml structures without ds: prefixes

As of now EBICS Server and Client is not able to parse XML structures without ds prefixes in some places, so the parses explicitly needs those. Where as the XML itself is valid against the XSD of the EBICS order types. We need to have the EBI...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Planned for future release