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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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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...
about 5 years ago in Store Engagement 0 Future consideration

Export users list with user status (enabled or disabled)

Admin is not able to enable or disable the users in Sterling Filegateway and not able to export the user status whether the user is in active state or not.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Single Supply and Demand adjust api to keep Availability picture synchronized

To mimic the behavior of Goods Issue (Supply and Demand decremented) in a synchronized manner, it will be good to have a API which can accept related Supply / Demand updates in a single event rather than 2 async apis which can be impacted at multi...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 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...
over 6 years ago in Store Engagement / Performance 1 Not under consideration

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

Sharing search saved searches between users

When we create good search saved searches to filter out particular results. It would be very useful to share them between full team. For example saved searches for customer service
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future 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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Create API to list Node Relationships

There is no API available to show the Node relationship. There is an API (manageOrgRelantship) to create and manage Node Relationships. However, there is no equivalent list or detail API to show the relationship. Therefore a direct SQL call is req...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Fix manageNodeTransferSchedule API to create Node Relationship that does not exist

Currently, the manageNodeTransferSchedule API creates a relationship in one direction from Node A to Node B. However if a Node Transfer Schedule is created in the reverse direction (from Node B to Node A), the reverse Org relationship is not creat...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration