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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Enhance a import feature to import JSON SCHEMA and Swagger(YAML) as type tree

Currently we have capability in ITX to import the JSON file as type tree. But we have a challenge that customers might give all the possible fields and group which are mandatory/conditional in the JSON test file during development. So we end up wi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Check file upload content with magic bytes

At current situation a malicious user can bypass the file type restrictions for logos in pem-pp application. It is possible to bypass the upload restrictions and upload a disallowed file by changing the file Content-Type to an allowed one. The ser...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review

Exclude set periods from the Movement and Forecast Usage calculation due to strike or curtailment

Asset Intensive companies tend to have unionized labor forces that can go "on strike" for a number of months at a time. The usage during these strike periods tends to be considerably curtailed or non-existent. The impact of a 4-6 months-long strik...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

API for "Invite Again" functionality

If partners are bulk uploaded but not sent an invite, the only way to send the invite is to manually click "Invite Again" in the UI. An API should exist for this.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Enable Log Rollover based on Size and not Number of lines

I enabled Translation Logs setting the Log Level to ON with Rolling Over every 100000 lines. It started creating the logs of size as big as 52 GB which is really huge in size and doesn't make any sense as it can't be read. Please provide the Log R...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Order Hub: Streamline Inventory Adjustments across Segments

In prior R2 release, we only had RTL and RTL Store Segments. As such inventory adjustments to a Store Segment occurred as follows: Run an inventory search for a specific Retail Store Segment (RTL-XXX). The inventory adjust logic automatically decr...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Optimized locking of YFS_ORDER_HEADER record , more granular control for changeOrder API.

Customer order can be updated by multiple agents at the same time, most of it can result in changeOrder API calls. This results in row lock contention in YFS_ORDER_Header record by select for update query, ccfrfn4vuhtt0. The ask here is provide mo...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Planned for future release

Add a feature to load codelist to IBM Transformation Extender (ITX) Design studio for local testing

We are using codelists for 90 percent of clients and currently, we do not have an option to load the codelists to the ITX design studio for local testing as we do for the SI mapping server. We are depending on CTE/Production testing to validate ma...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Enhance PGP failure report on Inflight

In case of any PGP encryption or decryption errors, Currently, we are seeing zero byte output in case of PGP issues and failing at subsequent translation steps. But errored report is not indicating about issues in the PGP step. This request is to ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Compliance check map name visibility issue on Inflight for envelopes with no translation

Below envelope is configured with no map/no translation at ST envelope but still we are getting map name on Inflight, Please correct ELUX_CITIBANKCAN-ED1_004203642_X12_ST_823 Please check screenshots from Inflight and Config Center
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration