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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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Track Rule IDs being used for Document flows in Inflight Event details section for RPA usage

Currently the implementation and support teams rely on BPN Support Tool to investigate/troubleshoot document flows in production. After looking at the document in question in Inflight, a support personnel takes the Process ID /date time frame and ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

COGNOS REPORT- Can the reports can be published to any FTP locations.

Is there a way to send the Cognos report to FTP location rather than emailing the cognos report as an attachment. Currently we are sending the Report via email which customer need to download and put it in a location to process it further. So they...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Support updates for Alias Netmap.

Per IBM Presently Control Center cannot directly update the Alias. We need this to be able to support full netmap updates.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

During cancellation the Charge Amount should not get refunded when the ChargeType configured as "Non Refundable"

There could be some header charges like Donations which shouldn't get refunded when customer cancel the order. There's a existing configuration in Sterling to keep the header charges as non refundable (IsRefundable="N") however it is not working f...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Allow the FTP Server adapter to ignore or terminate connections from load balancer health checks

The FTP Server Adapter seems to accept connections from the load balancer health checking, and creates entries into the ACT_SESSION table for them. It seems an unnecessary task to perform and causes additional database activity. The Connect Direct...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Add Processing Cost configuration to track fixed fees

Add an additional configurable attribute for the Processing Cost model to track a fixed cost for the first item picked from a given node. This cost would be added to the existing variable processing cost (determined by item count) available today....
about 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Capability to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions

Add the capability for Order Optimizer to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions provided by the retailer. Enabling this added input would improve WOO's ability to predict stockout and markdown probability when a future change...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Order Optimizer to adjust future sourcing decisions based on actual shipping data

Order Optimizer to ingest shipping data of what actually happened and adjust future shipping/sourcing decisions based on the data. Discussion and prioritization of use cases is needed between Kohl's and IBM. Need to determine the best data sources...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Order Optimizer support for different shipping cutoff times based on service level

Add Order Optimizer support for configuring different same-day shipping cutoff times based on shipping service level.Includes:1. File feeds / configurations to support default network cutoff configurations based on service level2. File feeds / con...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Add Order Optimizer support for same item/sku on multiple lines in an order

Add Order Optimizer support for the same item/sku to appear on multiple lines in a given order. Currently Optimizer requires these scenarios to be siphoned out (excluded) from Optimizer.Optimizer should be enhanced to allow for 'same item multiple...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration