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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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Sorting of products based on Availability during a call center product search

Call center currently displays list of products independent of items are available or not. When CSR are having a conversation with customer, they need to spend lot of time to identify products with inventory. There should be a mechanism to either ...
over 4 years ago in Call Center 0 Planned for future release

Basic Auth for Order Hub API calls to OMS

Currently our OnPrem OMS implementation works based of Basic Auth for external applications to connect with OMS. We are trying to enable Order Hub and we noticed that it is using JWT Auth for all API calls after initial login with Basic Auth. We a...
about 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Reporting Capabilities in PEM

It would be really helpful if PEM is having reporting capabilities on Activities and Partners. This would be really helpful for business.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

RPM for automated installation

We need a RPM installation package for Connect:Direct to simple deploy in our Cloud enviroment. The RPM must inform all dependencies for a automated instalation process (like Puppet).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Accept Signed EERP Requests OFTP2

I recently went added an OFTP2 connection in PROD between IBM customer Thyssen Krupp and their TP WST. We send the file successfully and TP has confirmed they receive the file successfully put it stays in "processing" status on our side as if they...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Search by multiple order types simultaneously

Need an ability to search by multiple orders simultaneously. Currently its only allowed to search by a single order type ( Sales order or transfer order, etc )
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

Want to drill down to order data (PO , MFG Order) from inventory screen

From the inventory screen , user should be able to see the orders( Purchase orders , sales orders ) that is causing the supply and demand. This is currently possible in Inventory console screens
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration