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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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Build server for OMoC clients

I am seeing lack of build servers as part of OMoC offering a big challenge with many client small & big. Today the client is responsible to setup this environment and whether they have an extended team to support their implementation or not, t...
almost 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

Add Window Tolerance in Minutes capability

Currently in Control Center slc window tolerance, the value is in hours. Although a window tolerance of zero can be selected, a user may want a tolerance that is less than one hour, but not zero. There may be a need to monitor a file for timelines...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Audit logs should be created when a CD or B2Bi node is Paused/Resumed recording the ID

In production situations node monitoring by Control Center is critical for alerting on failures. Currently someone can pause monitoring and we have no way of determining who did so.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Enable SequenceGenerationKey usage in Router Action step

Currently, SequenceGenerationKey is only enabled to use with Basic transation action. It will be very helpful if we have access to use this with other actions too. ( Example : Enveloping, Router etc )
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Copy to Sharepoint UNC path using WebDAV@SSL protocol instead of SMB/CIFS

currently C:D can copy to Sharepoint shares only using SMB/CIFS protocol we need to copy to a Sharepoint share which is accessible using WebDAV@SSL protocol \\our.sharepoint.local@SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\abcxyz\Shared Documents\destination-folder\
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to handle all queued process at one time.

Today in ICC when files queued up in "Queued process" It need to be handled manually to move to completed process. Then the process would be eligible for purging. Latest version of ICC 6.1.2.1 will allow user to handle queued process / page. If cu...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Purpose field in pick request allows only two values SALE and TRANSFER, we need more values - REPLACEMENT, PICKUP

Purpose field in pick request is only allows two values SALE and TRANSFER, we need more values - REPLACEMENT, PICKUP. This will help store to differentiate what type of PICK request. We need purpose field value to be supported in pick preferences ...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 6 Future consideration

Ability for store associates to execute the adhoc cycle count without any explicit assignment

If we assign Adhoc Cycle count task link access to store associates, he is able to create a adhoc cycle count task, but he is not able to complete the task without manager assign the adhoc cycle count task created by him. we need an ability by ass...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 9 Future consideration

IBM CoC Data Extract Tool - Date Range Attribute required for extracting the data for the particular time period

In CoC Data extract tool, currently there is no date range attribute to configure directly into the tool. We need to manually calculate the days based on current time and required date. Based on that, we need to update the FirstRunExtractInDays an...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

The ITX mapper needs to be capable of supporting Sterling B2Bi Envelope/Control Number management is a similar manner to how it support ITXA in order to fully leverage ITX maps within the Sterling B2Bi product

This ask effectively is to expand the Sterling Data Harness called within ITX maps to support more than just delimited from the Sterling Envelope but allow for a get & increment control number(s) as well as all sender/receiver/qualifer/version...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration