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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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Update SI to support the latest version of GnuPG using the provided CLA2CMD Adapter (RTC 584840)

Currently Sterling Integrator supplied GnuPG Adapter supports PGP V2.0. This has been depreciated on 31st December 2017. The newest versions (currently 2.2.16) fail to work (see RTC 584840) with the internally supplied cla2cmd adapter.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Not under consideration

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...
9 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center does not show the process number of a Sterling Integrator business process

Sterling Control Center does not display the Connect:Direct process numbers from a Sterling Integrator business process going through the CDSA. This is because the process number is actually not passed from Sterling Integrator to Control Center. T...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Introduce Surplus Transfer Opportunities IN - show Transfers available IN to a plant

When implementing new stock levels, the business has an opportunity to reduce working capital costs by utilising surplus stock from another plant to fulfil requirements. By introducing a field Surplus Transfer Opportunities IN and allowing it to b...
9 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Canned S3 Adapter - support for the other providers like IBM cos, Pure storage etc.

Hi Chandra, After extensive testing and research, I have found that the AWS S3 adapter is currently only suited to working with virtual-host-style endpoint URLs. I'm noticing that the typical use case for the AWS S3 client adapter seems to be for ...
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

CD for z/OS: historical stats using Db2 instead of VSAM

The product only works using VSAM to save historical stats while other ISV products like XCOM from Broadcom can use VSAM or Db2 tables. We're preparing next upgrade from CD 6.2 to 6.4 and we must to define a new VSAM, then import previous VSAM inf...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support Alma 8

support Alma8 for AWS deployments and open source deployments
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Provide a way for sponsor standard users to roll out an activity

We need to have our sponsor standard users to be able to roll out activities, while still being able to control their participation in a rolled out activity based upon the custom role they have been assigned to. Perhaps there could be a way, simil...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Not under consideration

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration