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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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SEARCHUP() & SEARCHDOWN() functions should return all matched records, Instead of first match

Currently SEARCHUP() and SEARCHDOWN() functions return only single object. We need the functionality for these functions to return all matched records instead of one similar to how EXTRACT() function returns data. Using EXTRACT() on large data set...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

CD Windows: Support por codepages ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15

Actually Cd Windows uses mlang.dll of Microsoft for codepage transaltion. This mlang.dll can't work with codepages ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-15. CD Windows must be changed to use another APIs to support ISO Latin codepages
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Change basic status/return value of Business Process

We have a custom business process defined, where we are retrying the failed step, especially the SFTP connection failures We were able to retry the failed step, but the basic status stay as error, in turn causing the jobs triggered from TWS failed...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Under review

Unable to take backup for property files from custom GUI in Sterling B2B INtegrator - 6.1.2.0

Currently we are running Sterling Integrator version 6.1.2 on OCP. There is no option for us to take the backup of property files from Custom GUI.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

IP + User_Id whitelisting

SSP supports IP or User_Id whitelisting only but not a combo ( IP + User_id). We need to ability to whitelist IPs for a given User_id. This way, if a rouge employee left the firm but carries the user_id credential, he can't login from other locati...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

API to list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for node

IV API to get a list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for pick by node. This would be simpler than getting a list of all items and then passing each item into Get Item Fulfillment Options.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Store user authorization and store assignment consideration in IdP

We've come across multiple retail engagements where IdP system e.g. LDAP system takes care of user authentication and also maintains the user group assignment. With OMS CoC enabled in IBM ID, it's mandatory to first create a user in OMS with the m...
over 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Ability to consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types.

When doing inventory allocation based on segmentation, OMS should consider the unsegmented inventory also as a secondary option to fulfill orders or demands for custom segment types. This feature currently exists in v10. But is needed for v9.5 for...
almost 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Increase character limit for Description field to more than 255 characters.

We are planning to update description field with multiple characters and then generate the report for dashboard purpose. Customizing the character limit to higher value will help us to add more characters in the description field.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Order Status changes to be audited

when order line status is changed by schedule order/release order or any other API's, status change is not getting audited in the order audit tables. Request to get this feature added
almost 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release