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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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View transfer order information in Call Center

We are using procurement transfer order in our current implementation. There was a requirement to see the transfer order details in Call Center, mainly the tracking number while it is in transit. We could see that the Procurement tab at order line...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 4 Not under consideration

Add Additional DL and custom message to the proactive notifications and service disruptions from IBM

0n 7/16, Network disruption at IBM end had impacted the Release order agent to look for GIV inventory instead of IV and closely 5000 orders got cancelled because of this issue. Later we restarted release agent to fix the issue. OMS team did not re...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

DB Backup and Reset feature

To train guest services users on Sterling OMS functionalities primarily around Call center features, need to refresh the database meaning take a backup of a particular state of the initial order set and later restore the backup so that we can prov...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Future consideration

Fix some bin scripts bang line

When automating bin/runAll.sh script, it failed to find bang line on first line of script. This is on a new install of b2bi 6.1.0.2 Running cmd below on b2bi bin dir: head -n1 *.sh > /tmp/bin_head1_list.txt Shows that these 6 scripts have somet...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Activity Hierarchy

Create a folder structure for rolled out activities. Currently all activities show up in the same page with the most recent rolled out/closed activity. In the document attached, you can see above there are currently over 4500 activities rolled out...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Edit Activity Definition to Already Rolled Out Version

Currently, once an activity is Marked as Final, and rolled out to partners it is not possible to update that activity definition to those rolled out customers. This can be quite troublesome when an activity contains an API error or another error w...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set time for automated emails

We would like to be able to choose when the automated reminders are sent out. Currently they are scheduled to be sent at midnight on the 7th and 9th nights. This time has proven very unsuccessful. People are not sitting at their desks and it gets ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

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