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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 comments when resolving an error

Currently when a partner receives an error, the sponsor goes into the activity and clicks "Resolve Error" for each activity. We would like to add a comments section for the "Resolve Error" function. This would allow us to include comments in the r...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Better Search Options for Directory

We would like to request that the search function for the directory includes all fields, i.e. User ID, Given Name and Surname. So when a letter or string is entered into the search bar all User ID's, Given Names, and Surnames which contain the let...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add Search Functionality to Attributes in Company Profile (Directory)

Under Directory>View (CompanyProfile)>Attributes>Edit, we would like to add a search function for attributes. Since there can be up to 100 attribute values for one attribute field, and they are not in any particular order (that we could d...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

REST API support to convert not invited users to registered PEM

We need new REST API marking the status from NotInvited to Registered for PEM users and this only sponsor admin can call. The requirements have been discussed with OM and Dev team (Jagadeesh)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Windows 2022

My Customer needs to implement Connect:Express in Microsoft Windows 2022. However, we have support for Microsoft Windows 2019 not 2022.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Add DB2 11.5 support for Sterling Order Management 9.5

End of support for DB2 11.1 is 2022-04-30. We are currently running 9.5 on DB2 11.1.4.6 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition. We would like to upgrade the database to 11.5.6.0 or newer to remain supported.
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Same alternate UOMs to be used across same Item-Ids

Our company uses multiple UOMs for items. There are few alt UOMs which are maintained in an OOB table provided by IBM. When another item is being created with a different UOM in item table but same UOMs in alt table, the item creation failed, stat...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

Change Request Reporting data capture

As part of Change Request Project - Report data capture was not included - Client has been on the Solution for 6 months - client requestors and management request reporting capability that has been partially addressed within the product as a mass ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Protection/Unprotect from Bulk

During project client had "protected" one field for hundreds of items - which when they came over to MRO - they are still "Protected", but now they want to remove the protection and asking if this can be done via the bulk features. It was noted th...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration