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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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ability to resend or restart archive data from inFlight

the resend or restart buttons are only available on the recent month data in the new inflight. The legacy would also allow resend and restart from the archive data. We would like this for the archive on the new inflight.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement for a keystore password when running a silent upgrade

A manual upgrade does not require a keystore password, but a silent upgrade does. Removing the need for this keystore password would simplify the silent upgrade process and be more secure.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Is a defect

Allowing changing of shipping service of shipment through BUC

Changing shipping service of orders (FROM UPS 2nd day to next day or vice versa ) is an important functionality which is being perfromed by support team on day to day basis.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Functionality already exists

Using DB2 for performing SNIP Type 5 (External Code Set) validation in compliance check map

We have requirements for performing SNIP Type 5 validation and we use DB2 for our client. But we understand from ITX support team that the hipaa_data_compliance map is designed to use MONGO DB for performing SNIP Type 5 validation (External Code S...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Not under consideration

Track Rule IDs being used for Document flows in Inflight Event details section for RPA usage

Currently the implementation and support teams rely on BPN Support Tool to investigate/troubleshoot document flows in production. After looking at the document in question in Inflight, a support personnel takes the Process ID /date time frame and ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

COGNOS REPORT- Can the reports can be published to any FTP locations.

Is there a way to send the Cognos report to FTP location rather than emailing the cognos report as an attachment. Currently we are sending the Report via email which customer need to download and put it in a location to process it further. So they...
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

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 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Overdue 997 event notification

I would like SI to trigger an email notification when a document reaches an Overdue acknowledment state.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow the FTP Server adapter to ignore or terminate connections from load balancer health checks

The FTP Server Adapter seems to accept connections from the load balancer health checking, and creates entries into the ACT_SESSION table for them. It seems an unnecessary task to perform and causes additional database activity. The Connect Direct...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Support Partial Cancellation in Reservation

There are use cases when a partial cancellation is needed on an existing reservation before the reservation is consumed e.g. a reservation was made during cart but as items are removed from the cart, partial cancellation has to happen before the f...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists