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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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ITXA - Operating System Specific jar files for the ITXA packs of all supported ITXA versions needs to be created and stored in IBM site, to share with the ITXA customers, during ITXA installation

For the packs installation in ITXA, we need a jar file. This jar file creation needs Windows OS, and the jar files should need to be OS-specific (either Linux, Windows, or AIX). In case any jar file contains another OS version, apart from the cust...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 3 Future consideration

Upgrade/Fix Installation should log and recreate the custom Database Indexes dropped during the installation

As per the current design , Fix installation drops all the Custom Indexes created on Database and recreates the Database schema without the custom indexes dropped. Customers will be having lot many custom changes (Custom Indexes) done on Databa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

RTAM - Inventory Alerts - Save Suppy, Demand & Safety Stock inventory positions

As part of inventory publish, few systems are interested in ATP (supply - demand - safety stock), few other systems are in only (supply - demand) and few others are interested in only onhand supply. However, RTAM publishes only ATP and to calculat...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions

We were able to replay the transfer before, and looks like that feature was removed from further versions. We wanted to be able to replay the files from completed file transfers interface.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 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.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Processes which are NOT OK should remain in TCQ

In most situations, where a process ends not OK, it is moved from TCQ to statistics, i. e. LSMG244I. Finding the original //SYSIN of the batchjob for repeating is difficult and time consuming. There should be a mechanism (exit, initparm, ...) to i...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow Pallet Receiving

The application currently supports receiving at the shipment level and container level, only leaving out pallet. The reason is not clear. Receiving should be allowed at all levels.
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. A sample message can be provided if needed. Can the nex...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration