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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...
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...

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Add options to expand equipment module items search

Many Clients have hub-spoke materials distribution, a central distribution center where replenishment occurs and stock is held in an "on-shore" plant, which supplies an one or several "off-shore" plants via transfer order. The way Equipment module...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

FileAgent become another user

Allow File Agent user to become another account as specific folders are owned by different accounts. A little history, we were using some product to monitor files for different directories, the product allowed us to become another user to pick up ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Provide for native (non-UE) configurability to record discounts/promotions at unit level, to align with most omni-retailers best practices in refunding multi-unit orders

First, please see: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/269415 In IBMs response, the Sterling team states that it is "as designed" that a customer would receive an entire unit's refund upon the return of the first item of a multi-line order, wit...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Future consideration

Bill of lading (BOL) functionality should be part of Store offering/product

Bill of lading (BOL) is one of the most important documents in the shipping process. To ship any goods, a bill of lading is required and acts as a receipt and a contract. A completed BOL legally shows that the carrier has received the freight as d...
over 4 years ago in Store Engagement 0 Future consideration

Allow different sender and receiver email addresses for sending alert mails in standard BPs

Currently in many standard BPs both the sender as well as the receiver of an email is coming from the admin users email address. Unfortunately there are situations where the sender (sending system) is different from the required receiver address(e...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We have...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Enable Stop Deployment option

There are occasions where we accidentally click on deploy button and there is no way we can stop the deployment. Can the product atleast ask for a confirmation before initiating the process? or lets have a stop deployment option in the lower envir...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

When Events are producing using Kafka adapter need acknowledgement as response.

When Events are produced using Kafka adapter needs acknowledgement like the respective offset number and partition number in Kafka broker.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release

Consolidate Call Center and Store Engagement into a single Customer Engagement Solution

The idea there are separate solutions needed for customer engagement is antiquated and driven more by either poor organizational structures and silos, and/or the current market environment of solutions. IBM has the ability to take the lead in this...
about 6 years ago in Store Engagement / Performance 1 Not under consideration