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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 "Session ID" for SEAS authentication attempts

In a high-traffic system it can be difficult to determine which log entries in the seas logs are related to a given authentication attempt. Currently we're forced to grep / search for the specific username /timeframe and then manually parse throug...
about 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add process name filter

In the Control Center Web console, there is not currently a way to filter by process name. There is for process ID though. Please add a filter for process name.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

TS009319697 : Not able to pick only specific order to SHIP in IBM store

In Store UI, if multiple shipments using same carrier, then we do not have the option to ship each shipment at different times. Replication steps attached. Client Requirement: We don’t want to send the store to store order out until we know the re...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 1 Future consideration

Capability to copy or share BUC Workspace across multiple users

Need the ability to set-up large / complex workspaces that can be shared across multiple users. One user may have edit capabilities while others may have view capability only Or, in lieu is workspace sharing, offer an option to copy a workspace be...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Include an Identifier to differentiate between the Inventory dbavailabilitycache message triggered by a delta vs full sync(publish_all trigger)

In our integration with IV services, we encountered scenarios where a full sync is being consumed by MW system and in the interim delta change comes in, the delta change processing is delayed because of the lengthy processing of full sync messages...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

A Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides

With IBM Consultant Nick Green, we’ve been developing custom management reports in Analytics – one report we haven’t been able to do however is a Workqueue report which goes beyond what the current data source ‘Live Workqueue History’ provides. Cu...
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Skipping Payment Confirmation Page

In our the old UI we had to a customization that removed a lot of buttons from the add payment screen. In our case the orders were always $0, but we still had to confirm the payment method. We would like to be able to remove that screen altogether...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

NFS directory restrictions requires world execute permission

Root squash enabled NFS directories cause an issue with C:D requiring world execute permission on every directory in the path when using the upload/download directory parameters. We want to be able to use upload/download restrictions without havin...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Same Billing and Shipping address button

In the old UI when we created a manual order in the OMS we had to enter both the shipping and billing addresses even though they were the same. In the new UI we would like a button that allowed us to tell the OMS that the addresses are the same an...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration