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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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Legacy Inflight to have search option based on User ID for protocols (FTP/SFTP/AS2ID/HTTP/OFTP2(SSID/SFID))

We have request from high volume customers like VF Services/Ceva etc requesting for change in the protocol relationship as the partner has moved to other service provider/change in the protocol url's or moving from one protocol to other like (FTP ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Basic Auth for Order Hub API calls to OMS

Currently our OnPrem OMS implementation works based of Basic Auth for external applications to connect with OMS. We are trying to enable Order Hub and we noticed that it is using JWT Auth for all API calls after initial login with Basic Auth. We a...
12 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

PEM Should notify sponsor when an email is bounced back.

Some Partners email servers are not receiving PEM emails and are likely bouncing them back. PEM should let the sponsors know if the Trading Partner did not receive the email.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Upload UI component - improve user experience

The user experience of the Upload button in UI dialogs could be improved greatly. Currently, not counting the browser's file-selection window, it takes 5 mouse clicks and typing in a name to upload a new file: 1) Click the Upload button in t...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

Get Network Availability - Array of Distribution Groups (IV)

- Ability to pass array of distribution groups in Get Network Availability similar to array of ship nodes in Get Node Availability- This can be used in multiple use cases:- Enquiry for cart against multiple delivery methods (standard delivery DG, ...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Store UI:Date field search for receiving panel.

In receiving search panel of Store UI, there is no option of searching based on Date. However, search based on date range is present once we go to list page. Can we get the date range field search in the first screen where we start receiving. Plea...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement 2 Not under consideration