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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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Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Copy to Sharepoint UNC path using WebDAV@SSL protocol instead of SMB/CIFS

currently C:D can copy to Sharepoint shares only using SMB/CIFS protocol we need to copy to a Sharepoint share which is accessible using WebDAV@SSL protocol \\our.sharepoint.local@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\abcxyz\Shared Documents\destination-folder\
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Need ability to use AlternateItemID in inventory APIs

We have a Global catalog where an Item is identified by UPC in US and EAN in Europe. (This is a common setup across companies)We have ItemID=UPC, and we have Item Alias for EAN.We can use AlternateItemID=EAN to create order and it works fine. But ...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Not under consideration

Define custom SSP CM user roles

Allow SSP administrators the ability to create custom CM User Roles in order to fine tune user's access right based on individual needs The current Roles(Admin and Operator) are to limiting. For example the Operator role can not review node defini...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Ability to handle all queued process at one time.

Today in ICC when files queued up in "Queued process" It need to be handled manually to move to completed process. Then the process would be eligible for purging. Latest version of ICC 6.1.2.1 will allow user to handle queued process / page. If cu...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka.

Sterling Out of box integration with Kafka Case number TS002842262 Description WSI is moving to Kafka for all the asyn messaging process from current JMS(Tibco EMS). We are looking at Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka. A...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 15 Planned for future release

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Option to fail map warning return codes

No description provided
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

UI efficiency improvements for finding partially actioned orders to complete from store (including reprint picklist)

Store users wanting to quickly find a partial order in the system corresponding to a partially packed order on their backroom counter that is missing its picklist, store users finding an item on the backroom table after packing many orders and wan...
almost 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration