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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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When a scheduled work order that initiated a purchase via reservation is changed it should not be allowed to be closed or moved without addressing the impacted Purchase Requisition(s) or Purchase Order(s)

You are committing dollars to purchase products that may not be used for a long period of time or potentially ever. Giving visibility to operations and supply chain will allow for better decision making before work is cancelled or deferred.
2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Enhance Putaway Preferences

As part of this request, we would like to address 2 issues: Putaway preferences are not assigning putaway locations directly (using include/exclude locations) and we had to implement a workaround using location dedication to a specific inventory s...
3 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Under review

Enable view only permission to the product details screen in IBM Sterling Business Center

We have a requirement to view product details in SBC without any edit or modify access. However, with current user group permissions, if Item Administration permission is enabled for IBM Sterling Business Centre, we are able to modify item propert...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Enable or Disable the view only permissions for the screens in IBM Store Next Gen

We are having a requirement to have view only permission for screens/sections shown in the attached document in Store Engagement. However, when edit permission is enabled then user should be able to modify or perform the specific action in IBM Sto...
3 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted

Allow custom metadata tags rather than forcing predefined tags like "business reference"

Our viewers come from many teams and may want to search documents by different important tags. Such as 'SHID', 'MBOL', 'LoadNumber', 'OrderNumber', 'InvoiceNumber', etc. Today Inflight only allows "Business Ref", and ExtraInfo 1-3 for data like th...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) / Mapping & Translation 4 Under review

Ability to manage multiple SSH Authorized user keys for a Partner

Currently we can only add/associate one SSH key to a user account from SFG UI. We need to go to SBI dashboard to associate multiple SSH keys to a user ID. This is a limitation within SFG UI but also adds a risk for user accounts which already have...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Scrubbing Feature

Today I have to use the Command Line Adapter to scrub the file by calling a custom script. It would be nice to have an out of the box scrubbing capability (e.g., replacing ! with | or removing all delimiters from a source file that could impact ED...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Functionality already exists

API for Engine Config Push

Provide API to push configuration to engines. Same functionality as the "Push Config" button on the Monitoring->Engine Status (All) page on the UI.
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1

Data Extract Agent to send deleted records

Currently the extract agent does not send any data that was deleted from OMS database. This is causing discrepancies with our internal Data warehouse for any data that gets purged in OMS. The main concern is actually Inventory purge. We have a pro...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Support TLS Certificate authentication in SMTP adapter

Migrating to Microsoft Cloud-hosted SMTP Relay using port 25. Applications are required to have company domain issued TLS certificate for communication when sending to users outside the company.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration