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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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Out of the box purge agent for clearing entries in INV_INVENTORY_ITEM_LOCK table

As part of the Hot SKU implementation, Lululemon has enabled granular locking at the Item / Node / demand level by adding following properties in Customer overrides. This has improved the performance of the system by reducing database row lock co...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Denied Workflow Corrections directly from within Workflow list view

Frequently when a workflow change is denied, the approver has asked for something to be changed or corrected on the record being submitted (set size is incorrect, business Impact is incorrect, reorder levels adjusted to a lower number, etc). The s...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Publish In-Stock and Out-of-stock events only to COS Bucket

Currently, we cannot publish only the events to a cos bucket when the On hand inventory of an SKU becomes out of stock or comes back in stock. Instead, we are forced to use threshold values to control the publish, which is not very efficient. Ther...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Supervisor Approval flow missing in Store engagement

At Costco, we have a usecase to support Supervisor approval workflow to override price in case the current user doesn't have relevant permissions. This feature is missing in Store engagement per current documention
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Sterling Integrator JMS Adapter Issue in consuming messages

There is an issue that happens when an outside source sends a file with a “null” message inside the message body to the B2Bi JMS adapter: the Sterling JMS adapter process is going into an endless loop when receiving the Null value inside the body ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

Return quantity with three decimal places does not work in WCC.

While creating returns from WCC we cannot enter quantity with more than 2 decimal places. This field should be customizable, i.e., one should be able to configure how many digits they can have after the decimal.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration