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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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Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct

Please add another tool/command to UNIX Connect:Direct : NDMPING which exists on TANDEM Connect:Direct, however not on UNIX Connect:Direct. It is useful to have NDMPING on UNIX Connect:Direct to help CD Administrators to complete a validation test...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Set Partner Unique ID on Bulk Upload

With multi-config in place, it makes more sense to allow the partner unique ID to be set on original upload than within the activity itself. As this is the only searchable field besides partner key, adding the ability to set this upon upload would...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Not under consideration

Store Associate should have visibility entire order when fulfillement is pending by another location (transfer to pick scenarios)

For orders which are partially fulfilled by a store (eg BOPIS order being partially transferred from another store or DC), the store user does not have visibility to the entire order picture, thus is unable to service the customer's request of fin...
about 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Stop/Start a particular instance of an Agent/Integration server

Hi Team, As a part of housekeeping activities we often come across scenarios where we need to do a restart of a Agent/Integration server. This restart could impact the processing of orders for a time being which could lead to business impact. To d...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Passwordless login in CDWS

Our connect-direct node is using a passwordless unix user for communicating with our partners node (snode). As of right now (v 6.0.0.3) the Connect:Direct WebServices GUI is requiring password in order to login on our node. There seems to be no wa...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Functions to get internal information from within a running map

For logging/tracing purposes I'd like to be able to get actual information about the mapping/card/function/field I'm currently at. So I can write into a logging about that particular point in the execution. A bit like LASTERRORCODE() or GETRESOURC...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Able to Monitor and Alert IBM B2B Integrator Perimeter Server

One of the main Brazilian bank would appreciate that feature to monitor the Perimeter Servers of them B2B Integrator many instances
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Functionality already exists

findInventory does not validate zip code length

For invalid zip codes which are 10 character long and first 6 characters are valid, findInventory returns valid results. instead it should throw error.
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Inventory Visibility Service | Event Publish | Reservation Event

We would need to use the node level reservation event message to create activity for RTAM to consider this reservation for publishing to all consumers of the inventory.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists