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Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add new optional arguments available across all email templates

When customizing e-mail templates, it would be extremely beneficial to have specific data available as arguments/variables to add to any of the e-mail templates (if they make sense in the context of the email). These include: Partner company/organ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Enhance C:D Rest API cdwebconsole/svc/processcontrolcriterias to allow definition of symbolic parameter values

The current approach enables to execute a static/hardcoded locally stored CDP process. This approach is very limited as for example you cannot specify a specific file name in a copy step to be transferred when executing. Therefore please extend th...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Permit for quota-free import of in-store TAKE SALES (not orders) for one-stop shop in customer order history

Orders are not a majority of overall enterprise-wide transactions, and the OMS is not expected to process them in any regard, ie settlement or fulfillment - This is all taken care of by the POS platform. As such, it is not of benefit for OMS to sp...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

GTIN based Inventory Availability and Scheduling in OMS CoC and Inventory Visibility

For our current client, inventory items are uniquely identified using UPCs(not to be confused with UPC in generic sense) and not SKUs, while the selling catalog identifies items using SKUs. These UPCs can change every year for the same item. For e...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Product improvement for reading pdf and ZPL data along with image format

Currently OMS Provides SFS Feature which helps to print data only if it is in image format. FedEx and UPS carrier system supports image data. But other carriers like postAT, DHL send response in pdf data or ZPL data form. IBM does not support thos...
almost 3 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Not under consideration

ability to resend or restart archive data from inFlight

the resend or restart buttons are only available on the recent month data in the new inflight. The legacy would also allow resend and restart from the archive data. We would like this for the archive on the new inflight.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement for a keystore password when running a silent upgrade

A manual upgrade does not require a keystore password, but a silent upgrade does. Removing the need for this keystore password would simplify the silent upgrade process and be more secure.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Is a defect

Support for calling scripts following completion of transfer

The sender of a file can specify a script to call once the file transfer is complete. There are customers that will not implement this. How about a way for the receiver to specify a script to call once the transfer is completed.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists