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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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Implement Secure UDP for Connect Direct File Agent

Our internal security standards want all traffic to be encrypted. Currently, File Agent uses standard UDP (SNMP) to send messages to Control Center. The goal is to have this traffic encrypted. We are being told that in a couple years the PCI DSS s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Phone Number field should be limited based on Country

In the current UI, we were planning to modify the phone number field to accommodate the phone numbers in each country we ship to. We would like for this to be OOTB in the new UI so no customizations are needed.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway UI - to add an extra option "Both" for Authentication Type in User Account in Partner creation

In Sterling B2Bi UI, while User account creation we are having options Local, External and Both for Authentication Type. In Sterling B2Bi UI, if we opt option "Both" for external partners with whom we do password based authentication, and if we do...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Email Address should not be a Hyperlink

In the old UI we had to customize the email address so it was not a hyperlink. In the new UI we would like the email address to be string value OOTB.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Ability to remove unwanted buttons

In the old version of the UI we had a need to remove the button for delivery and pick up, but that was difficult so we opted to make them not usable. In order to have the cleanest UI we would like to be able to remove buttons altogether.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Future consideration

User group filter with & (and)/ |(or) and return attribute customisation

To implement PEM SSO current PEM can only use custom attribute / attribute with which can only return one string. Expected output as mentioned below.Sample output user role: </property><property><name>role</name><value&g...
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Ability to Toggle Between Tabs in COM When CSR is Performing an Action

Problem: User is not able to switch between a tab and popup in the call center. Steps to reproduce: Call Center user would like the ability to toggle between tabs in COM regardless of whether or not in the middle of performing an action in the cur...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 3 Future consideration

Purpose field in pick request allows only two values SALE and TRANSFER, we need more values - REPLACEMENT, PICKUP

Purpose field in pick request is only allows two values SALE and TRANSFER, we need more values - REPLACEMENT, PICKUP. This will help store to differentiate what type of PICK request. We need purpose field value to be supported in pick preferences ...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 6 Future consideration

Ability for store associates to execute the adhoc cycle count without any explicit assignment

If we assign Adhoc Cycle count task link access to store associates, he is able to create a adhoc cycle count task, but he is not able to complete the task without manager assign the adhoc cycle count task created by him. we need an ability by ass...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 9 Future consideration

Support transactional JSON in a similar manner to XML within Document Extract Service/X12 Envelope Service (and EDIFACT likely too)

We are a large user of Sterling B2Bi both BPs and Enveloping and historically we also have been for mapping as well. That said we have a lot of demand with the movement in the development space and even a few external facing areas toward JSON, as ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration