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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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Multi-UOM support in Store

Multi-UOM support with interconversion and a primary UOM. As an example, be able to receive as a case, putaway inventory by case and individual units that totals up to received qty, pick in different UOM e.g. dozen based on order or be able to bre...
almost 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

Unable to take backup for property files from custom GUI in Sterling B2B INtegrator - 6.1.2.0

Currently we are running Sterling Integrator version 6.1.2 on OCP. There is no option for us to take the backup of property files from Custom GUI.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Automation of In-Place Node Renames -- CDU/CDW

Various application teams are approaching us for Connect:Direct high availability architecture guidance and advice -- or have decided to strengthen their C:D architecture -- after initial software installation. This is resulting in hundreds of CDW...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Inflight - Search box for Trading Partner Names

We have 1000+ TP Names for few clients like Electrolux, Ceva etc. in inflight NA & EU. We need to search the TP names using the browser search box. Instead of searching through browser box, we can introduce a search box in Trading Partner Name...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

API to list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for node

IV API to get a list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for pick by node. This would be simpler than getting a list of all items and then passing each item into Get Item Fulfillment Options.
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

ValidateItem flag behavior same as PROD items even for PS/DS service item types

For a business requirement, don't want to have a defined PS item in OMS but still want to proceed with order creation and fulfillment. To achieve this, tried using a flag given by Product called ValidateItem as N at OrderLine level during order cr...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

BPN still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down

BPN CTE and Production still have decommissioned translation POD's available under Target System drop down like POD 16, POD 20 till POD37.which sometimes create flow issues as these PODs are no longer available. If these decommissioned translation...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Email Alert Formating

Email alerts, from Control Centre are in plain text format. Can the alert email format be using for example XLST and HTML to mark critical warning and success with appropriate coloring? Can we have for separate, for each alert, its own configurati...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Ability to track parts transfers out from a site and to the receiving site

Useful for tracking the flow of transferred inventory, including dead and re-deployable inventory, and which site are supporting this process.
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists