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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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Open diferent sheets from an excel file

We need to build a map where the input will be an excel file, but the information is retrieved from different sheets. Each file received contains a different number of sheets and the information will be retrieved by cells assigned in another inp...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

PUT call should allow the content of the key to be updated.

For KNOWN_HOST_KEY and AUTHROZIED_USER_KEY the PUT calls are only Enabling/Disabling the status of key nothing else. We want that PUT call to be able to update the content of the KEY itself. Meaning, with the PUT call, I should be able to edit the...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Solution to Prevent Inventory Availability going negative

Currently when an inventory is added through cycle count or removed through Transfer Order we have a default segment as WALK_IN for IV system. But in some cases it is leading to negative inventory in WALK_IN segment when there is inventory only in...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Projected Demand Widget

Our clients have been asking for this functionality independently and every time they see Change Request module they ask "can a user submit a forecast? that can be updated in the record?" Currently that is not possible.
about 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enable option to adjust column width on Configuration Hub

Currently, there is no option on configuration hub to adjust the column width under the mapping or code-list sections. However, this feature is available in the config center, and it’s particularly helpful for viewing the full map or code-list nam...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

SIP: Reservation api for a distribution group to consider shortage quantity for nodes associated to a DG

Reservation API against a distribution group, should consider shortage quantities of nodes within DG and restrict reserved quantities to consider shortage. When a reservation api is invoked for an item and utilizing the entire network (distributio...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Improve performance of SERIESTOTEXT function

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function does not distinguish the type of an object when the same field from the type tree is passed at different level. To make things clear, below is an example of a typical ANSI X12 type tree and the 'X12 Segment' is ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

An enhancement request with Product Management to add support for AWS RDS SQL*Server and/or AWS RDS Postgres with Kerberos authentication.

We are migrating existing SQL*Server database (w/ Kerberos authentication) to AWS RDS platform. Current C::D Control Center does NOT support AWS RDS (any databases, such as Postgres). We won;t be able to configure Control Center as IT IS NOT MEET ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration