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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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Fulfillment of bundle or install lines across multiple zones (Zones configured as separate ship nodes in OMS)

Client has two zones within an owned warehouse. Regular zone is the warehouse zone that holds inventory owned by the client. Consignment zone is the warehouse zone that holds inventory that is Consigned, owned by a vendor. Both zones are considere...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Visibility of general notes to other users when the workflow is in approval stage

In current setup, no visibility to other users on the comments added to notes except the requester and approvers until completion of the workflow approval. It is good to have the visibility of these to all, which will be helpful especially if any ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Microsoft Deprecating IMAP and Basic Auth - Oct/2022

Microsoft is deprecating the IMAP and Basic Auth authentication for mailboxes from Oct/2022 - please see the link below. As of now the only options to connect to Office 365 mailboxes is using IMAP and Basic Auth - but that will not be available es...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Bin/SKU Dedication - Ability to see bin assigned to SKU when searching at the SKU level

Current situation: In SIM, a user can assign SKUs to a bin as dedicated to that bin. When searching for bins, the user can see the SKUs that are dedicated to that bin. This is great if the user is searching for bins with SKUs. Requirement: In SIM,...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Can Supply Type information be available in FindInventory Output

As part of one of our implementation we using new Supply_Type FIRM_PLAN for pre order future inventory . Frontend system will be calling Availability service to get availability . And we have a scenario where Item as both Onhand and Future Quantit...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Putback capability for click and collect order cancellations

For BOPIS orders as part of backroom pick the picked items are moved to a BOPIS staging location or some secure location which is not then available for picking or walk-in customers. In case of a customer cancellation at that point or a no-show, t...
about 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

ITXA - Bulk Update Utility To Update Properties in Envelopes

This utility would benefit customers with large amounts of Envelopes when they need to update a property in an Envelope instead of having to update each Envelope manually.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Future consideration

Clone option for Code list item Config:Center:

We generally add new entries (SenderID/ReceiverDI Lookup) to the existing codelist table. where most of the time we endup adding same Text1 to Text9 values to the new entry. Hence by having a "clone item" option beside the "Add item" it will be he...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Add REST API for the RUN TIME information

REST API for the RUN TIME details (Connect, Validate, Invalidate, Generate, etc.,) will be helpful and simplify the integration with other systems.
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration