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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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Increase the capacity of UI to accommodate API response and provide it as a download

Many times, the API outputs become huge over time due to which they do not fit the max threshold of characters set. Can we increase the threshold and also provide the option to download the output as it is convenient to analyze it in a text editor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Planned for future release

Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We have...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Display actual time instead of elapsed time for recent completed transfers

When trying to pinpoint when a transfer happened for troubleshooting, or any other reason, it would be a lot better if the time was displayed instead of 47 minutes ago or 2 hours ago...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add options to expand equipment module items search

Many Clients have hub-spoke materials distribution, a central distribution center where replenishment occurs and stock is held in an "on-shore" plant, which supplies an one or several "off-shore" plants via transfer order. The way Equipment module...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release

Modify configureCmSsl.sh and configureEngineSsl.sh to allow for command line paramter passing

the current scripts allow for some parameters to be passed, but when exporting a CM configuration, you must always supply a second passphrase for the encryption of the exported xml file. This parameter cannot be passed without feeding it from your...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Add flag to ManageItem to trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV

When child items are created by manageItem, it would be really useful to be able to automatically trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV via a flag so that the child item is associated with the model item in IV - so that the IV Availability Product ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Need Additional Columns in Inflight Trading Partner Activity Report

The additional Columns in Inflight Activity Report ( Data Received and Data Sent Date-time stamp ) will help Clients (any SCBN clients)to generate more detailed reports. For instance, it will help them determine the time taken for data (i.e. ORDER...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

An option to extract/export search results

For all search results available in OrderHub ( Orders, orderlines items, shipments, releases ) , an option to download in a csv form will be useful
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Inflight ERN notfication through SMS

Hi Team, We see so many ERN gets triggered for translation / Protocol failures and customer have difficulty in Identifying / Prioritize transactions that needs Immediate attention. Customer would like to have an option available to configure SMS a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Multiple Carrier Service Support in "Calculate Preorder Shipment Assignments"

Ability to return multiple carrier services in response based on fulfilling node together with common carrier services at cart level- E.g. Cart with 2 lines Line 1 - Node (DC1) - Returns "Standard Delivery", "Next Day Delivery", "Saturday Delivery...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release