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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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Provide Option to export in Jar file while using export Command Line Utility

In Sterling Integrator, export command line utility, export.sh, is available under <INSTALL_DIR>/tp_import directory. It is currently having export options as XML (Default), WAR file. There are no options to do export in JAR file format.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Certify all components of Sterling suite to be use in virtual machines of clouds platforms like Azure, AWS, bluemix, etc.

Many customers are moving there infrastructure to the cloud, as a company that use computing services of IBM, the needs of our customers are essentials, so we need that the sterling suite must be compatible like on premise, with the O.S most use l...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

Passphrase Support for 100 Characters

RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases. Having all z/OS software/products also support that limit aligns them with the RACF limitations. This allows users even greater options at creating longer passphrases thus a more secure one.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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

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

File agent high availability run GUI cdfa -C from a single Default_Config.ser copy in shared workspace

Instead of maintaining multiple local copies of Default_Config.ser, could a parm be added to cdfa -C to direct GUI to use a single copy in the shared directory. Similar to the cdfa -w parameter.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 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

Permettre la remontée des flux EBICS client dans IBM Control Center

Nous devons superviser les flux bancaires avec ICC, les flux EBICS client doivent donc remonter dans ICC. Translation:- Allow feedback of client EBICS flows in IBM Control Center We have to supervise the bank flows with ICC, the customer EBICS flo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release