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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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Fulfillment of bundle or install lines across multiple zones (Zones configured as separate ship nodes in OMS)

Client has two zones within an owned warehouse. Regular zone is the warehouse zone that holds inventory owned by the client. Consignment zone is the warehouse zone that holds inventory that is Consigned, owned by a vendor. Both zones are considere...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Visibility of general notes to other users when the workflow is in approval stage

In current setup, no visibility to other users on the comments added to notes except the requester and approvers until completion of the workflow approval. It is good to have the visibility of these to all, which will be helpful especially if any ...
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

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).
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Bin/SKU Dedication - Ability to see bin assigned to SKU when searching at the SKU level

Current situation: In SIM, a user can assign SKUs to a bin as dedicated to that bin. When searching for bins, the user can see the SKUs that are dedicated to that bin. This is great if the user is searching for bins with SKUs. Requirement: In SIM,...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future consideration

Can Supply Type information be available in FindInventory Output

As part of one of our implementation we using new Supply_Type FIRM_PLAN for pre order future inventory . Frontend system will be calling Availability service to get availability . And we have a scenario where Item as both Onhand and Future Quantit...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

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

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox.

Allow the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe) to pick up ALL files in a given B2Bi mailbox. Currently, customers need to send a separate tickle for each file that resides in the on-prem B2Bi mailbox. This is inefficient and would reduce overh...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

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