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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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Alert to files stuck in SFG mailbox

Occasionally when SFG encounters issues files will not get picked up and routed by SFG. Until the file has been picked up by the SFG routing rule it is not visible in the SFG arrived file display meaning it is hard to identify where there are issu...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Ability for customers to set up their own network reports

An added functionality in Document Tracking that allows customers to set up Network reports such as the 030 report (error report) 070 Report (Daily Processing Report) 020 Report (Transmission Report). The benefit of allowing customers to set these...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 3 Planned for future release

Pinned note. A note that is retained at the top to the Notes window

This note maybe information that is critical to future decisions. As an example, in our business we have spares that are not classified as Critical, but we want to ensure that they are always retained in stock. As the current user, I am aware to l...
about 1 month ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Be able to configure RTAM to not monitor Model item level availability

RTAM spends time calculating the Model item level inventory availability (yfs_item.is_model_item = 'Y') but our business does not use this information so it's an opportunity to save resources for us. Could we add a customer overrides property to d...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Ability to copy a work queue as a starting point

We have some very similar work queues which are quite complex. It would be helpful if, like you can with tableau reports, you could "copy" an existing work queue as a starting point so that you don't have to recreate all the rules and risk missing...
about 2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

API to get ATP for LOT-TAG Number considering unassigned demand

CLient want to sell items on the order capturing channels and want to promise to the customer only if inventory & its corresponding tag/lot number are available. Requirement - OMS API that can give us availability at the LOT/TAG Number level, ...
about 2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Implement an audit history to show updates that are made to rules, data uploads, etc.

Useful to see when updates are made to rules, who makes the updates, what the old settings were, and what the new settings are.
about 2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Hold being applied during OrderCreate with Status as resolved

When an order is created it is sent through logic to determine fraud. The logic sets the fraud hold as either created (active) or resolved (inactive). Sterling is not looking at the status of the hold and putting the hold in a created(active) stat...
about 2 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Needs more information

Modifying dp-config-batch-import script

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ000000pF0EQAU/dpconfigbatchimport?language=en_US
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Data Power 1 Needs more information

Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration