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Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Status "Wait Queue" on SMF record

Add the Wait Queue" statuses (WC, WP, WT, and WX) in the SMF records.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Capacity support for carrier services

- Ability to define capacity restrictions at carrier service level along with time slot offerings- Capacity restriction example: 10 orders/lines/units on specified days for "Next Day Delivery" at "Store A" and 15 orders/lines/units on specified da...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Authenticate OMS users without having to preload the user base

Many clients of OMS do not maintain a user repository system that can send user load to OMS. Users will be present on the client's active directory and will can be authenticated and created in OMS during the authentication.
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center

->FileGatewayDeliverFTP business process failure not generating alerts in Sterling Control Center Comments from IBM: Control Center does not monitor system level BPs, and that is by design. The customer can open an enhancement if they desire an...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Create a separate jdbc pool for opscmd

Issue: Customer noticed that SBI's opscmd.sh script duplicates the creation of every connection pools from SBI to the Database. Root Cause Analysis: When queueDepth command (using opscmd script) is invoked, it creates another copy of connection po...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration