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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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Freeze/Fix Column names on Comparison Matrix

In the Comparison Matrix Widget, when users Add certain columns to view in the matrix, when you scroll to the right, you loose visibility of what each row of information is. can the field names be fixed to the left side of the window pane so as th...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Move the 'Previous Item' and 'Item state' icon to the right hand side of the screen

I personally think it would be more useful to have the 'previous item' sitting next to the 'next item' rather than to the far left of the screen, especially as more companies are moving toward the wider single monitor. I find I'm constantly scanni...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Make package.folderWatchDelayInSecs Available in System Settings

My understanding is that the settings for package.folderWatchDelayInSecs are only available through the RESTful API. This setting along with all settings should be made available in the system settings as well.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Future consideration

Need serial details in the exceptions block when marked as Damaged/shortage during putaway in mashup response

When user selects record shortage during putaway we are unable to see any shortage serial details in the exceptions block of mashup response. store is unable to identify the proper serial based on the selected reason code.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 6 Future consideration

Eliminate the compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace monitoring.

The compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace prevents use of Control Center Webconsole. Only remediation is to disable the Dynatrace UI agent on the application node. We use Dynatrace for monitoring of all our Sterling Infrastructure and woul...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Future consideration

Allow BOPIS orders where order is not picked from the store but shipped from warehouse

There are scenarios where items are special order items or not available in store or store does not participate in BOPIS. Also called as Site-to-Store. In these cases, the order is actually picked in warehouse, packed and shipped to the store (via...
over 4 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add a feature to pass the failed response from PP to PEM.

Hi, Currently, in PEM under the tab "Wait for Provisioning" when the control passes from PEM to PP to provision the resources in respective environments then in the PEM side we see a triangle draft kind of sign stating that the PP is working to cr...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Removing specific Operator functions within Sterling Integrator

This proposed functionality is useful because it provides security from a SOX perspective for those that are and aren't members of your company and/or organization, who will benefit from this change.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration