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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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SSCC Availability in TS Events UI

A user needs to be able to create events for a serial in the transparent supply UI. Currently users are only able to create events for lots in the ui. The serial UI should be similar to the existing UI for lots and would likely be a selection betw...
over 1 year ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future 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

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

Make Connect Direct for z/OS the only handler of encryption and decryption. We dont want to grant users access to the Cryptografic Services Facility

We have noticed that Connect Direct for z/OS requests users submiting a job to have READ access to the CSFSERV when using any of the GCM ciphers.We want to use the highest available cipher without compromising the security by granting unrequired r...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

customer overrides properties for liberty profile server.xml

We would like to have customer overrides setting to be used in the server.xml of the liberty profile instance managing the B2Bi API's.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Support for using NoSQL DB's

We are publishing extremely high amount of daily events and moving the data store into a NoSQL type DB would provide greater efficient and search speeds.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Future consideration

Maintain Price,Charge and Tax attributes for cancelled lines

When an order line is canceled all the price charge and tax attributes are zeroed out in OMS. We have a requirement in Data warehouse to pull all the data from OMS and determine the sale amount that was not converted . Currently DW has to go to a...
almost 7 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Monitor SI schedules and Routing Rules in SCC

Currently SI related schedules and Routing rules does not get monitored in SCC. Some of the SI related schedules are very critical and important for Customer, if that can get disabled then file processing does not happened. Similarly if Routing ru...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration