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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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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
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Maintain Rule versions/version manager for routing rules created under BPN support Tool

Many process flows is designed using BPN support tool. Currently if a rule is modified/updated, The only way is to search the rule update by audit logs and manually revert back the values incase there is a processing issue. Many rules are being up...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

SSP Authentication APIs

SFG REST APIs could send/receive files however for the external trading partners this is not possible with SSP in between
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Report inventory for multiple items in a table in BUC

We can currently search on multiple SKUs by separating the SKU with a comma. But the user still has to drill into each item separately once the search results come back. If the user has searched on a single node or singe DG, they should be able to...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Order hub permission to incldue options to controll node turn on/off and change capacity actions based on node type

The client wants to have the abiity to enable and disable stores for certain users but the same set of user should not have the ability to see turn off DCs. Similarly there should be ability to change the node capacity for certain users only for s...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Order Hub to have ability to periodically updated nodes in workspace based on a node selection rule

The client wants to have ability to create workspace that accepts a rule like all nodes with parent organization A and Parent Organization B and have the system periodically update the node list as nodes are added and removed.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add an API to add/remove/change Users in the access control list

Clients would like the ability to manage a user Group with their own tools (for audit purposes). If they could use an API to modify the MROIO user list, then they could manage the list on their side.
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Mail Client adapter to allow Oauth 2.0 with grant_type as Client Credentials

The out of the box B2B mail client adapter allows to make connections to the mail exchange server for OAuth2.0 with grant_type as "Password" only. The grant_type as password is an obsolete and a vulnerable way of getting tokens and should allow gr...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Return Order Reciept in Store

Hi, One common return option with many retailers is Create Return Online(Self Service) or Create through Call Center and drop the item to store. For this scenario,once customer drops item to store - we need to receive the return order - record rec...
over 4 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release