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Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Single Supply and Demand adjust api to keep Availability picture synchronized

To mimic the behavior of Goods Issue (Supply and Demand decremented) in a synchronized manner, it will be good to have a API which can accept related Supply / Demand updates in a single event rather than 2 async apis which can be impacted at multi...
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Enable the Equipment Module (and Where Used) to be able to link to BOM’s using just ‘DIVISION’, instead of DIVISION and DISTRICT_CD

This is useful as it will allow client to filter through on materials issued against equipment at Division level and get the right count when they view that material against all District_Cd affected
almost 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

Sharing search saved searches between users

When we create good search saved searches to filter out particular results. It would be very useful to share them between full team. For example saved searches for customer service
12 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration