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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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Ability to present 'Action' options to Approver(s) within Workflow Approvals

As an Inventory Controller, when creating some types of Workflow Rules, I would like the ability to add a list of 'options' for the original (1st) Workflow approver to choose from as a part of their approval, that relate to the result of the appro...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Display who the current approver is on a change request instead of only showing the final approver

When you are reviewing the workflow and seeing where change requests are awaiting review/approval, this feature will allow you to easily be able to see who the current approver is who is. This way, when reports are pulled we know where the request...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Node out of cluster - Process files gracefully automatically

Business will get benefitted and avoid impacting bank's reputation.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Location Table ContactName string greater than 35 charecters.

We are currently using this field 'Contact' to store the email address, but the email that we are currently updating is 36 characters long and the last character is getting truncated due to the field length limitation of the Contact field. So need...

System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Future consideration

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Provide mechanism to persist EBICS COF order descriptions

Currently the descriptions for EBICS order types created using the Custom Order Framework must be manually added into the relevant ebics_{language].properties file in the lang sub-folder. These properties cannot be defined in customer_overrides e....
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Future consideration

Reservation auto expiry to generate reservation events

Today if the reservation expired due to the set time , there is no availability event getting triggered for the same. Due to this, there is no visibility of actual availability being published .
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Allow Order Mod to Add New Line with Different Ship To Address When Simultaneously Cancelling Existing Line

Account Managers need to perform multiple modifications to an order at once. 1. Create order with 1 line item. Order line is in Created status. 2. Change order by cancelling line 1, adding line 2, and modify the Ship To Address with Override=Y Exp...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Generated columns to be supported in Multi Format Logical files

We have a new Gentran configuration that uses an external SQL table in Application Definition. This can be helpful for us since we have a standard is creating a table. We have columns that have a "Generated Always" attribute and we encounter this ...