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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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Add the HIPAA 834 318 and 277DRA transaction to the HIPAA pack

The state of New York is requiring insurance carriers to use the 834X318 and 277DRA transactions. These transactions are currently not in the HIPAA pack. This will cause compliance checking not to work and the mapping type tree is not available fo...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 5 Not under consideration

TO should get scheduled on product Available date rather than moving it into further date while performing backward date calculation on ETS based on ETD for optimal solution

Currently as per design When the TO is created on Tuesday, and the transit time identified based on the carrier service is 2 days, then the ETS is on Tuesday and the ETD is on Thursday (considering the working hours). Similarly, when the TO is cre...
12 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Parallel Executions of a Shared Activity

In the case where a maintenance activity (ex. user account password reset) is shared to a partner account, we need the ability for multiple partner admins or users on that acccount to execute the same shared activity simultaneously. Currently, PEM...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

SAP Adapter Configuration: Add Retry Limit and Retry time interval option

Currently, we have the option of Retry limit and time interval for FTP and SFTP protocols. As SAP Adapter in SCBN has been recently introduced, the option of retry limit and time interval is missing from Inflight setup screen. We should have this ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Ability to define picking capacity at order line level

This is copied over from: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=59894 What is the requested functionality Picking capacity* is maintained for each fulfilment unit (STO, CDC,CPU etc) on Order Line level. T...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

To determine whether to charge taxes or other additional fees based on a specific payment method, certain configuration settings must be put in place.

In certain use cases, such as when dealing with two payment tenders - Gift Card and Credit Card, it may be necessary to configure the payment settings to ensure that taxes or other additional fees are only charged using the Credit Card option. For...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Support AD windows authentication method for SQL server database

To meet Industry security standards to authenticate to Enterprise Active Directory tool
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Make ECHDE ciphers available for Selection in Connect Direct for IBM i

Current only RSA ciphers are available on Connect Direct for IBM in version 3.8. RSA ciphers are not considered deprecated due to ROBOT vulnerability.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Not under consideration

Mandate Inventory Status selection when counting with variance for the new Location/SET

When user is trying to add inventory for the new Bin/Location it is letting to add the inventory without selecting inventory Status in the dropdown , this causing to add the inventory into SIM with inventoryStatus post approving the variance.
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Not under consideration

Automated Cognos reconfiguration for High Availability

Installing ICC in a High Availability environment requires steps taken to reconfigure Cognos as detailed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_6.1.1/com.ibm.help.scc.install.doc/scc_ensure_cognos_server_connection_HA.html Th...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration