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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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Purging of SolidDB transaction logs

SOLIDDB transactional logs are not getting purged automcatically after the checkpoint interval. We beleive this shoudl be part of the product. This request is to ehnace the product which will take care of purging the Solid DB transaction logs. Reg...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

copy folder's files and sub-folders by C:D

FTP provides a generic feature of copy specified remote server folder's files and sub-folders. For example,we have the the path /path1/path2 and files 1a,1b in /path1;2a,2b in path2.if we copy /path1 by FTP then we copy all these four fils. But C:...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct netmap may contain only 3 addresses on HP Nonstop

Hello, Today on unix, mainframe or windows the number of alternate ip addresses that we may enter in a netmap definition is unlimited. On HP Nonstop (not HP-UX), we are limited to 3 hostnames or ip addresses (the documentation says: IPADDR=ip.addr...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Change how CDW Statistics are gathered

I propose that a change be made to the CDW software to be able to gather CDW Statistics reports in the same format as is used by CDU.We can keep the current CDW Statistics report format desired.This need not be done through the Requester - this co...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct API Independent From C:D Server

We are attempting to use Control Center to manage our instances of C:D and Control Center connects via the C:D API. Some of C:D instances sit in different datacenters behind a load balancer in an active/inactive state. We would like to be able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option

Connect Direct for UNIX silent install only has one option to install the client CLI and the server component. The silent install script doesn't have a client (or server) only option to install.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Need Option to cancel InProgress Pick, PutAway and Transfer Order

Store user should be able to cancel InProgress Pick Request, PutAway and Transfer order for which Pick is in InProgress.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 9 Planned for future release

Enable Item based inventory threshold event if inventory falls below certain threshold

Enable Item based inventory threshold event if inventory falls below certain threshold When the item inventory falls below a configured threshold, then transfer order needs to be initiated automatically.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to assign multiple SKUs with all bin locations or single sku with all bin locations

Ability to assign multiple SKUs with all bin locations or single sku with all bin locations. Currently SIM UI don't have cycle count bulk assignment feature for single or multiple skus. Filter count requests based on the SKU's / bin locations.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 12 Future consideration

Today there is no way to trigger physical inventory count in SIM. The functionality can be enabled via a program/backend. It should nullify all other open requests.

Today there is no way to trigger physical inventory count in SIM. The functionality can be enabled via a program/backend. It should nullify all other open requests.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 5 Future consideration