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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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Status to be returned when performing an automatic silent install

When performing an automated silent install/upgrade from the Windows command prompt, instead of the command dropping straight back to the command prompt, certain messages would be returned and at the end of the install/upgrade a return code/status...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Multi Faceted search support in catalog search API

This enhancement was done in 9.3 and dev prereleases was provided but it is not present in newer versions. It adds support for multiple facets in search for product in call center or store or any consumer application.
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Order Management on Cloud is able to provide out of box integration to fetch availability from IVaaS during the execution of any promising APIs or order transactions.

IBM Order Management on Cloud is able to provide out of box integration to fetch availability from IVaaS during the execution of any promising APIs or order transactions.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

System is able to support providing control in the request of all availability APIs that ignores safety factor definition while calculating availability.

System is able to support providing control in the request of all availability APIs that ignores safety factor definition while calculating availability. We need this feature for Find In Store Functionality.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level.

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level. We need this feature same as RTAM in Sterling where inventory can be published.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Need proper PDF Documentation of version 6.0.0.0

The existing HTML format documentation is not easy to use. The generate PDF link on the version 6.0 documentation will generate probably 100 pdfs. We need proper PDF documents ...may be one install pdf, one planning pdf and one administration pdf....
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect

Display Starting position of the field in field level properties for "FIXED, IMPLICIT" group/file.

In ITX, when the group is defined as fixed and implicit, to identify a field position most of the time we must sum up the field length of previous fields when there is no layout. This would simplify the identification of field in positional files.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Turning off Audit, traces & backup (logs) dynamically in runtime

We process very large volume of HIPAA/ non-HIPAA transactions on daily basis with file size from 1KB - 2GB of data. In our architecture/ solution we always uses ITX along with the IIB/ACE product. At times our developers forget to turn off either ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 1 Not under consideration

Duplicate order check for B2B order in Order Hub

Mattel has requirement of duplicate order check based on Ship To Customer and Customer PO number. If combination of these two attribute values is not unique when a B2B order is being entered in Order Hub, user should get a warning prompt. He can d...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

SalesForce Case TS******* email notification to have Client Name in the Email Subject

Email notification from SalesForce only have ticket ref and initial comment in Email Subject. It would be very helpful to see from an email subject (or even content) which client/customer the ticket has been opened by / updated by. At the moment w...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Not under consideration