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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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Systems and System-related objects should be visible in the Portal UI.

There should be a way to view a system, its extensions, and profile references in the PEM Portal. This would provide users with easy access to this information as a reference when a campaign is not currently open for that system. It would also giv...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Add VDA Version 4938 Global Invoice to Map definitions

This version is required by our trading partners.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Standards 0 Submitted

Modify configureCmSsl.sh and configureEngineSsl.sh to allow for command line paramter passing

the current scripts allow for some parameters to be passed, but when exporting a CM configuration, you must always supply a second passphrase for the encryption of the exported xml file. This parameter cannot be passed without feeding it from your...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

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

Need an API to import invoices for processed orders and shipments

Invoices related to orders, shipments, returns, credit/debit memos are critical pieces of information to build the complete picture of a closed or partially fulfilled order. Since the line-total during order-creation and invoicing could vary, invo...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Equipment Linked to Item - Bulk Download Capability

It's great that the Equipment module allows you to search the equipment and then list the items attached to them. However, we need the ability to show, and download, the referenced Equipment for the Item.
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Request for New filter options in Inflight for communication type and pod

In the search for document option. Could you add the communication type to the search ? Like AS2, SFTP, Van or FTP. It would also be VERY useful if you could add the option to select a POD like POD41 and only see those that go thru that POD. When ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

CoC 19.1 SBC extensibility workbench opened in Firefox 60.x forces installation of jsLib that is incompatible with Firefox 60.x

Environment Info CoC 19.1 devtoolkit Problem Statement When following the documented CoC instructions to enable extensibiility workbench for SBC at the following link, trying to use Firefox 60.x forces the installation of jsLib add-on that is in...
almost 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Is a defect