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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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Provide Select all button to export resources from Config Center UI

Currently there is no single button to select all of the resources to be exported ( for example, envelopes/maps. We need to select page by page which is limited to 100.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Add user, role management to the BUC tool for users who are administrators

Allow a BUC authorized user with admin privelages to manage OMS users directly in BUC. BUC users should be able to see users by enterprise, team, group or role. Actions allowed should be to delete a user, create a user, or update a user's informat...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Future consideration

modifyItem Category should allow an action attribute of "manage"

In keeping with the purpose of the manageItem api, allow an action of "manage" on the action attribute on the Category node. This value should cause the association to be made if it does not exist and be ignored if it does exist. Furthermore, if t...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 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...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Default Focus on first edit text in forms

Hello, with Store Next, when creating a new order and entering customer firstname and name: there is no focus on a particular edit text in the form displayed at the time we have to enter customer firstname and name. Scenario : I create an order in...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Is a defect

CheckInventory flag in the agent criteria arguments of schedule and release

scheduleOrder and releaseOrder API has CheckInventory flag in the API request. The agent criteria arguments for scheduleOrder and releaseOrder transaction currently doesnt support passing CheckInventory. Could you please include CheckInventory att...

snode.work.path parameter for IBM Connect:Direct for Windows

The "snode.work.path" parameter is available in IBM Connect:Direct for UNIX while it is not in IBM Connect:Direct for Windows. The idea is to have similar functionality in Windows version. It will allow to share SNODE work files among nodes in a l...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SQS Client adapter to be extended for put

Currently the SQS adapter can only read from SQS. It should also be possible to put messages to SQS and to be able to use this service within BP
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration