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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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Global partner name list with EDI Code

In inflight customer can track business documents but they need to give partner name or customer names for each ID and if they wont provide nothing gets populated in name section. As per my experience its repetitive work if we are having same EDI ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Duplicate and generic envelope identification while importing envelope

Currently if the envelope name is different than which is present already in config center. The import process create new envelope considering no existing envelope but in place of that process should verify existing envelope using sender, receiver...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 3 Not under consideration

Identify Procurement assignments in YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE

YFSConfirmAssignmentsUE is implemented to validate the assignments with the external system (primarily inventory check with inventory source system). Is there any way to identify a line that is being procured from a vendor based on the fields in t...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Stand Alone File Agent - Do Path Match

Reference TS011100108. It is my understanding that enhancements have been done with Integrated File Agent, but the same enhancements have not been made to stand alone File Agent. One such enhancement, is to do path matching. With stand alone File ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

VISA needs support for Refund Authorization

VISA has a new mandate regarding refunds: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/support-legal/documents/new-purchase-return-vbs-10-apr-17.pdf According to this, retailers/merchants are required to make a refund authorization call to VISA before the...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Easy Routing XML documents based on contain of the file without map

2)Easy Routing XML documents based on contains of the file without map Xml routing can hapeen based contains of the file without map. The product should parse the entire xml and store in DOM. Based on xpath value we can route the documents. ex- ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Compliance Check map to include the CTX segments in the 999 Negative Acknowledgement

the usage of the CTX segment in the 999 would utilized in the LOOP ID - 2100 - AK2/IK3 ERROR IDENTIFICATION. where the Business Unit Identifier can correctly show the transaction error. TR3 rules state "Required when the error reported in this IK3...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 5 Not under consideration

Allow users to reload documents with a status "available" that have not been picked up in more than 24 hours.

This will provide users the ability to pick up documents that have exhausted the number retries allowed. Today, the only way to fix is by opening a ticket with support to mark the documents as "picked up" so that the user can then reload them to t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration