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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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Adding the ability to get all sheet names contained in an Excel fileadding the ability to get all sheet names contained in an Excel file

We want to convert multiple sheet excel documents to other formats.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Delivered

Set Taxable Flag to Y for all auto generated free gift promotion items.

Use Case - Taxable flag for the free gift lines should be set to Y as per the legal requirements in CANADA, but when trying to add promotion, the product is defaulting the taxable flag value to N which is the default value for the column. We have ...
almost 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Delivered

Add H2 or other single file database adapter to ITX

Current ITX database adapters require heavyweight database infrastructures like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, or at least some type of third-party, separately installed application. In organizations heavy with red tape and procedures, getting a datab...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 3 Delivered

TX SAP JALE Adapter to allow a custom EDI_DC40 Control Record

"Error in ParseElement" occurs because only the standard 36 field / 524 character EDI_DC40 Control Record is supported by the TX SAP JALE Adapter. This is causing the interface which uses a custom Idoc control record more than the 540 character to...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

Change current directory in ITX 9

Change current directory from <install_dir>/logs to msl directory. Or configure current directory for all launcher from dtx.ini.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

Breakup of future quantity by date in Available Inventory

The Availability API gives onhand and future in addition to the total quantity. The future should be broken by date e.g. x units on date1, y units on date 2.
about 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Schedule Shutdowns of Managed Connect Direct Servers

It would be nice if there were a way to schedule the shutdown of some of our managed Connect Direct servers. For us, it would be for Windows and UNIX (AIX and Linux). Connect Direct z/OS is managed by a different team here.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Delivered

Arranging files from recent to old timestamp by default in myfilegateway.

Currently, the files will arrange from oldest to newest files by default. When the file count is more in mailbox, it is taking quite a long time to rearrange . It will useful when the
about 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Delivered

Add Order Optimizer user role for view only access to all screens

Add an Order Optimizer role to enable users to view all current screens / data / configurations / reports while prohibiting saving modifications. This new 'view only' role would allow for supporting resources to view current settings or other UI b...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Delivered

Order Optimizer PDT user interface / experience improvements

In order to improve the general usability in the Order Optimizer Parameter Deployment Tool the following user interface revisions are being requested.1. highlight / shade or in some way visually differentiate child node level PDT configurations th...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Delivered