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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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Implement 'Hold' for a bulk product order for up to 30mins (or XX mins) as per OMoC SF ticket TS002131182

Add following functionality for 'On Hold' bulk items up to XX mins. As per following scenario ... We have created a remorse hold, to hold order's for 30 mins. To resolve the hold, we have created hold processing agent which is abstract transaction...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

UCD Self Status / SST Final Status of a process to reflect the success / failure of underlying action.

Following on from Shop Direct SF ticket TS002163187, the CDT 'Import CDT' process was failed because of a known failure issue regarding PLT_PROPERTY and PLT_PROPERTY_METADATA being Append Only. The UCD process expected this failure of the called C...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists

Allow for search on File Names (src, dest) in Unix / Linux

This is a great functionality and already present in CD for Windows. Can we please get the same functionality in Unix/Linux
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

User Accounts with limited access control to Sterling File Gateway components

Sterling B2B Integrator should provide options to create & assign DENY permissions to Sterling File Gateway components. At present Sterling file gateway does not have the options to create permissions for specific components. We'll have to use...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Functionality already exists

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Allow multiple simultaneous deployments to different environments.

With IBM owning the OMoC deployment process I expect the processes to be somewhat different though the same general capability to exist. The ability to do simultaneous deployments certainly exists outside of OMoC with IBM OMS, the same should be p...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Error Details in InFlight for PEPPOL Flow

We have recently started on-boarding customers who are using PEPPOL for their e-Invoicing via SCBN and B2BAC channel. Apart from translation failure any communication or validation error reported by remote Access Point providers are shown up in B2...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Clone Option While Adding Users In Customer Center

For our B2B/Managed Services Customers, when we are all set for production move there is a action item where the technical person or Admin from Customer side has to add their Team members who can access InFlight Portal for Monitoring there Traffic...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Functionality already exists

Check for inventory availability while adding a line for reship, the CSR should have immediate feedback as to whether it can be fulfilled.

Currently in the call center the reship function blindly adds the reship order line without doing an inventory check. I don't know that it needs to be as involved as a wizard such as adding a line though it does need to be more involved and at lea...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration