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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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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

Ability to import / update XSLTs from the command line to allow better automated deployments

We have many XSLT sheets in the B2B Integrator, but would like to have the source control of these XSLTs externalised from Sterling B2B Integrator and allow deployment via our automated deployment pipelines. Currently there is no ability to import...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

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

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

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

PGP UnPackage service to identify if the file was encrypted or signed only

When a signed file is process in Filegateway and with PGP preference set (decryption,sign verification On )PGP UnPackage service does not provide error to state that the file was only signed and not able to decrypt. The PGP UnPackage service compl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Allow line and header level discounts as percent

Currently, in OMS users have to calculate the percentage at a line level and it creates a possibility for human error. I would like to allow the user to input a discount percent at both the line and header level in OMS. This would reduce the numbe...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Split Shipment report

Split Shipment reason code: Split due to inventory, capacity, nodes, etc.. Allows the optimzer to give a reason for the split that allows the Business to identify other issues. Split due to distance, speed, inventory, capacity, etc..
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release