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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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Capability to copy or share BUC Workspace across multiple users

Need the ability to set-up large / complex workspaces that can be shared across multiple users. One user may have edit capabilities while others may have view capability only Or, in lieu is workspace sharing, offer an option to copy a workspace be...
about 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Hide Recommended (Export) ROP, Recommended (Export) ROQ fields for MTC/OPS User Role

• As part of Item request feature roll out, end users (maintenance planners) will now need to submit item requests (stock level change requests) in MRO IO. More than 500 end users will now have read only access to MRO IO. • As we all know material...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enable runtime duplicate envelope check in Config Center

As part of new partner onboardings for all SCBN customers, Implementation team will create envelopes with client and partner EDI ID's on config center and there is always risk of creating duplicate envelopes because of incorrect information from c...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Tool to monitor cert expiry

We want to put an alerting mechanism to monitor cert expire so we can proactively plan.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Apply / Resolve Holds feature missing in Store engagement

Costco is migrating their business from RCP SOM to Store Engagement. We are missing Apply / Resolve hold feature for an order - which is widely used by store associate today in case they want to enforce / bypass and proceed with the order processi...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

Option to disable Connect Direct Web Services web page

Current version of Connect Direct Web Services software provides two interfaces - RESTful API and webpage GUI access. Software should allow to disable web GUI access.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Allow RESTAPIClient to use the perimeter server for https vs proxy server

Currently the RESTAPIClient requires a proxy server IP/Port for https POST transactions. It would be much more convenient to be able to use the existing Perimeter server instances/ports.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Improve startWebAppServer.bat

On Windows, when the startWebAppServer.bat is executed from CMD, it doesn't close. If the window is closed, this will stop the web server for that EP. The only way I found that works is that when our team runs the startWebAppServer.bat, we disconn...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Bandwidth Limiting Policies on HTTP Server adapters

The " Bandwidth Limiting Policies" implemented for FTP and SFTP should be extended to HTTP. I.e. maximum session per User to prevent the User to have more than one simultaneous session.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration