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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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Add xlsx as report format

Microsoft is phasing out the use of xls formatted files. You have to manually open and save each file to convert to xlsx.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Improved Program Reporting from PEM

It's very difficult to know the status of our program even at the most basic level. I'm looking for some basic numbers such as: Number off Invites How many have started? How many have done nothing? How many are totally complete with the process?...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

About email notifications and body

Issue 1: For Example there is a partner called ABCBank and we have three child accounts(ABCBank-1, ABCBank-2, ABCBank3) in Sterling Integrator as well as PEM. And we have to rollout a activity for ABCBank and we would like to reset a password for ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 5 Planned for future release

Allow creation of app/integration servers on OMoC to designate which server to implement on.

With normal on-prem implementation the customer has the ability to define what agent and integration servers run on what hardware to provide some degree of high availability as well as balance load on the servers. With the OMoC self-serve tool and...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to disable item and node combination for specific DGs

We need an ability to disable item and node combination for some specific DGs in IV whereas for other DGs this Item and Node Combination should be enabled. Currently IV does not seem to support this feature.
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate CDT differences between two CDT Full export and apply the differences to a target environment

Configuration differences to largely automate migration of differential configuration from a lower work stream to a higher work stream without re-typing. Configuration differences to automate removal of configuration from a higher work stream if i...
over 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Circuit Breaker for OMS Agent and Integration Framework

What problem are we trying to solve?Scenario when external integration point’s (Payment Gateway , carrier service or any external application ) service is down, oms agent/integration server transaction will error out and goes to reprocess error ta...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration