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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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BOPIS/ Click and Collect Emails and Alerts

Most projects typically have requirement for following: Ready for Pickup/Collection E-Mail, Pickup/Collection Reminder E-Mail, Not Picked-Up/Collected E-Mail (upon being cancelled from ready for pickup status), Picked-Up/Collected E-Mail Be good t...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Future consideration

Support for "Refund Now" in CC to allow Customer services to refund a return before receipt occurs due to delays in warehouse processing

Very useful to assist call center agents when customer appeasement or servce is paramount but the returns process is slow/cumbersome - Should be enabled only if not already refunded (invoiced)
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Store UI:Date field search for receiving panel.

In receiving search panel of Store UI, there is no option of searching based on Date. However, search based on date range is present once we go to list page. Can we get the date range field search in the first screen where we start receiving. Plea...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement 2 Not under consideration

FileTransfer using connect direct with S3 directly

The ability to support CDU/S3 direct access from on-prem nodes is not present in this release. if connect direct unix directly about to do file transfers with S3 would benefit the business. It would be a game changer in file transfers for cloud.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Reuqest to have Connect Direct Windows support a Database AG Cluster and multisubnetfailover=true

We have created a Database AG for our Connect Direct Windows instance and would like it to support a failover from one data center to the other so we would like to see support for Connect DIrect Windows connecting to a Database Cluster and multisu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Resend Customer Emails via the OMS

In the new UI we would like the option of a button that can be connected to an external email provider. When the user clicks that button we would like for them to be able to choose an email to resend to the customer.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 4 Future consideration

Enable tasks in MRO IO that use to be performed by BEN-BOT

Enabling the tasks to be performed within the product would assist in training as knowledge of other tools would not be required. Also the expressions required to query/run tasks can be managed by the tool.Such tasks include: list of users current...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Analytics report that provides live information on the changes made by users.

Management would like to see how may items are reviewed/exported/changed by users. This could be listed on the item grid so it's included in the item export.
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists