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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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Capability to suppress emails as part of onboarding partners

As part of the partner onboarding when a customer wants to onboard partner to PEM emails notification on the onboarding status gets generated. We currently dont see any configurable options to control the behavior of the application. So customer w...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flow within CD/Z when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/Z initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/Z via ALT.COMM path(s).
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 7 Future consideration

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Include tag inventory details on order hub inventory search screen

Include tag inventory details on the order hub inventory search screen and include tag value while adjusting inventory from order hub Currently, the Order Hub inventory search screen does not display tag inventory. It only displays inventory avail...
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Addition of an logical Assignee column to Change Request

Adding an rule-based Assignee column to Change Requests would allow client supervisors or managers to “asssign” a CR prior to being picked up by a processor.
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration