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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...
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...

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Unhandle Alert

Sometimes mistakes happen. A user may accidentally handle an alert. It would be great if an enhancement was added where as long as the handled alert is still present in the Handled Alerts Monitor, the user could then check that handled alert and s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

OOTB API to update to the delivery and transportation schedules for Carrier Service configuration

We had customer requirement to provide integration interface for carrier calendars. Calendars to be supported through api/integration at carrier service level are transportation and delivery calendars. We can see that user interface is provided in...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

System Certificate Name Update - Global Update to Adapters/CD Nodes

When editing a System Certificate under B2B console > Trading Partner > Digital Certificate > System > (Your System Cert) > "Edit Name or Usage of existing Certificate"... You aren't able to make that name change globally. So your C...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add more columns to table

PEM Dialog UI has the Table component, which helps in creating tables in the UI. As per default, the Table creation is limited to 11 columns. We have various scenarios, where we need to fill into more than 11 columns. So, we request for an enhan...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

Need to record UserId and the reason for the pick cancellation.

We are not recording the UserId and the reason of cancel if user cancel the pick through store UI.It is very difficult to idendify the user who did cancel and the reason of cancel for Bopis Order.
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 7 Future consideration

IBM Gentran Server's compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

Ability for Gentran to communicate with unicode with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
about 5 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director 0 Not under consideration

MyFileGateway 2.0 (enable same capabilities / customization / Usability similar to 1.0)

There currently more customization in 1.0 vs 2.0 in terms of permissions and default views (FileActivity/downloads/uploads). The enhancements of multifile download and download as Zip are what our users wanted, but not with loss of certain functio...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Display Partner Communication Details under Inflight Event Details Section

Currently, We can only see Partner protocol profile ID and communication POD Process ID details at the final delivery step ( Protocol Started Step in Inflight ) while delivering the outbound document to trading partner. Since these are Internal in...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Need ability to display and edit ERN trading partner contact information

There is no way to easily display and edit ERN trading partner contact information. If an error occurs there is no easy way to find out who gets notified. No action can be taken if errors are sent to an incorrect contact.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

File Agent Rule Definition Panel: Capability to use the same arguments in the "process name" field as in "process arguments"

We would like to create a very dynamic approach for the definition of file agent rules using the "monitor subdirecctory feature" and a model for subdirectory structures containing the cdp process file name.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration