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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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Allow manual parameter setting (Define min/max, hold one issue, hold zero issues, etc.) despite an E RO error.

Currently, I am unable to set manual reorder values if an item has an E RO error. Since I do not need the tool's recommendations in these cases, I would rather not have to adjust my settings to clear the error before I set the parameters.
2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Chained order link is not always visible on Order Lines table in Order Hub

Chained order link is missing in Sales order line table, for scenario where a Return order is archived (residing in history table) and sales order is active order (residing in transaction table). It shows up fine when the return order also resides...
9 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Image build process without root privileges

User Story: For the current build process buildah is used in the base image and this requires the image to run in privileged mode. In our company we are using kubernetes to run containerd as a runtime to host shared gitlab runner which are used to...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Planned for future release

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration