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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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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 ...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

WorkOrder Purge effeciency

Observation in workOrder purge agent. 1) Multiple getsJobs are getting triggered with EnterpriseCode. 2) yfs_task_queue table doesn't have EnterpriseCode column, which leads to pick unnecessary records for executeJob (multiple enterprise scenario)...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

API for Handling Alerts

Please develop an API for handling Control Center alerts. Internal applications that use Control Center data would benefit from this.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Customer Pickup to pass Modification Reason when Cancel is selected and changeOrder is invoked

During Customer Pickup if "Cancel" is chosen as "More Actions" then cancellation reasons are provided in dropdown however when recordCustomerPick is invoked it internally calls changeOrder to cancel however the cancel reason code is not passed int...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

Ability to see perimeter server status on SSP (i.e. monitioring - running/stopped)

Currently we're unable to see which perimeter servers are active on the Sterling Secure Proxy engines, this in turn can cause issues if duplicates are present. This would mimic the monitoring ability currently in place for adapters.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Linux

Regarding Connect:Direct(Managed File Transfer), We would like to request getting support for Oracle Linux as soon as possible.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

To authenticate users/applications based on the Certificates rather than using userid and passwords

Currently, Any user trying to access NDM has to logon with userid and password either manually or via batch jobs. In order to avoid clear text passwords, Users can be authenticated based on certificates.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Add more functionality to integrate the export/import of individual configuration items with the command line

Currently it is difficult in version 6.1 to export/import individual configuration items in an automated way using a scripted approach, it would be better to have a more granular approach to ease release/migration tasks. For example being able to ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration