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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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COM: CSR: Order Cancel: View Original Sales Order Detail even when the Order is Cancelled

As a Tapestry CSR, I want all the Sales Order detail to be available even if the Order is in canceled status, in order to have a productive conversation with a customer by having visibility on original sales order information Use Case: When a CSR ...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

include the encrypt/decrypt (export/import) passphrase into the properties file for rest api calls

We were looking to find a way to automate updating passwords for some of our accounts within SEAS utilized in our connection settings. It prompts for a decrypt passphrase that we cannot seem to pass values through automatically via script and we w...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Need to read/write files to 3rd part encryption format/schema via an I/O exit able to utilize sub processes for the decrypt/encrypt step.

We would be able to read/write to encrypted devices having proprietary formats.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

ICC Database tables which hold summarized data can be partitioned

Encountering performance issues with control center due to having a requirement for a large amount summary data to be available. Given that some of the performance issue are due to long running queries, if the tables holding this data were partiti...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path

APIClient business process can pull and place file on Sterling filegateway mailbox path option too along with file system mailbox path
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Retrieve Provisioner Activity details using API

The "Activity Services" APIs at /activities/ and /activityinstances/ are hardcoded to only act upon Portal activities. Attempting to use them to retrieve instance details of Provisioner activities results in 404 errors. The API needs to be able to...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Sponsor and Partner Admin can update the Partner Admin to an already existing user or a new user

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Transaction ID should be treated as unique by Sterling IV regardless of when it is posted. This will help to avoid duplicate transaction updates into the Platform.

Currently, Sterling IV has the ability to not reprocess a transaction with the same transaction id only for 15 mins. But at BigLots, we have business cases wherein the same transaction can be reposted after 15 days to one month. We have discussed ...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

ITXA is allowing duplicate envelopes

ITXA allows users to create duplicate envelopes which causes enveloping and deenveloping process failures . Better to enhance ITXA product not to allow duplicate envelopes
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration