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Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Create a back out process for CD Windows patching

The current version of CD patching via CCD does not have a process to back out the patch incase of issues. The ask is to create a backout process and trigger it via CCD console if need be.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1

Ability to Search 3+ Sender/Receiver ID's in New InFlight

Currently in New Inflight it is not possible to search or preclude different Sender / Receiver ID's. This would allow the client to search for results across many Different ID rather than have to search each ID one at a time, this saving time.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Configure additional costs to be considered by SFO for optimizing the node

Apart from the Processing and Shipment Charges, that are being considered as part of the Shipping Model to calculate the cost to serve from the node, SFO should also have a way to add the cross-border customs charges, insurance cost and other misc...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

SFO to consider the ad hoc/unplanned node delays during optimization

The ad hoc delays need to be captured in SFO as separate parameter in order to account, longer processing time to ship the orders from the nodes during and post a sale event or, shortage in the manpower leading to delays. The ad-hoc delays need to...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Ability to edit/change the SFG partner community

Currently there is no way to edit or change the SFG partner community once it is created within a community. It will be really helpful if there is an option to make that change from within the SFG UI.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

Protocol Profile ID in receive step

For Outbound files we display PPID in delivey step, bt for Inbound or Outbound files we do not display PPID in inflight steps. For example, for any Inbound file in receive step we can see communication details, the attached screenshot shows AS2_me...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map name in the database

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map names in the database.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration