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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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SSP Authentication APIs

SFG REST APIs could send/receive files however for the external trading partners this is not possible with SSP in between
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Ability to schedule on hand inventory publish for a set of DG’s or nodes

Currently, the IV events for inventory publish only include available units (supply - demands - safety stock). We have a need to schedule (intra day changes and nightly sync) the publish of ON HAND units for SKU/location level to certain external ...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to schedule the publish of network level availability for a set of DG's

The trigger DgAvailabilityChange Event allow you to publish availability changes for all DG's within a tenant ID. This does not allow us to schedule the publish from within IV and also restrict the data publish to a subset of DG's. Within IV, we n...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Disclose installation documents to users

We have documentation regarding Gentran:Director, but the last update is 2011. It looks obsolete. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sterling-gentrandirector-documentation
over 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Utility to check compatibility and compliance of maps when upgrading to a new ITX version

ITX to provide an utility that can check if th existing maps are compatible with the new version of ITX or needs recompilation/modification. For shops with hundreds of maps this will identify the maps that need some action, hence improving the mig...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Functionality already exists

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Future consideration

Add process name filter

In the Control Center Web console, there is not currently a way to filter by process name. There is for process ID though. Please add a filter for process name.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Support of IBM WebSphere MQ 9.2

IBM have not claimed support for WebSphere MQ 9.2 support in Sterling B2B Integrator.The enhancement request is for the support of WebSphere MQ 9.2 in Sterling B2B Integrator. The latest version of IBM WebSphere MQ is 9.0.0.4.

1 click to set to Override rules and set to Optimal

Ideally we want the decision status to be Optimal so when I see the potential OOB ROP and OOB Max as 0/0 and the status hold zero I will 'Overide' rules, then change SAP ROP and SAP Max to 0. I think it would be very useful and time saving to have...
over 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Functionality already exists