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Include tag inventory details on order hub inventory search screen

Include tag inventory details on the order hub inventory search screen and include tag value while adjusting inventory from order hub Currently, the Order Hub inventory search screen does not display tag inventory. It only displays inventory avail...
9 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Addition of an logical Assignee column to Change Request

Adding an rule-based Assignee column to Change Requests would allow client supervisors or managers to “asssign” a CR prior to being picked up by a processor.
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

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

Additional REST services

In our project, we have augmented the Sterling REST services with some other capabilities which we wrote as JAX-RS/Jersey REST services, hosted in a WAR in an HTTP Adapter. It would be good if you would consider in the roadmap providing the functi...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Operating System version to be collected by ICC and displayed.

Currently Control Center shows the Operating system as UNIX, Windows etc. It would be more beneficial if Control Center could display the actual OS version , eg Windows 2012, RedHat 6.8.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Address $$UPDATE Deficiencies

We experienced an issue with C:D 6.1 on z/OS where we performed a $$UPDATE function on a netmap entry and the node became unable to accept inbound connections. We were advised by CD support that there is an obscure recommendation in the documentat...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create monitoring plan for threads, connections and buffers using QW

We have a need to monitor threads, connections and thread pools with the help of Queue watcher. Currently QW provide just the snapshot but there is no reporting from the same. We had multiple times the situation where the application is utilising...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration