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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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Display actual time instead of elapsed time for recent completed transfers

When trying to pinpoint when a transfer happened for troubleshooting, or any other reason, it would be a lot better if the time was displayed instead of 47 minutes ago or 2 hours ago...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Sterling REST API Update without prior get

Hi, We would like to update a specific user groups and accounts without changing the earlier configurations and permissions. In order to do so, we have to first GET the earlier configuration of the interested account, then add the new configuratio...
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Allow Sponsor More Flexibility in Changing Partner Account User Roles

Here is some information on the issues associated with having a main partner admin associated with every PEM partner account. Let's call this the super admin for the purposes of this email. The super admin is the partner admin who is required to r...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Add Columns to the User and Roles section.

I would like to be able to see the User Description when I am looking at the User and Roles section. In our shop, we use the User Description for enter the person's name. This can be much different when compared to their userid. Adding the User De...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Upgrade Jasper Reports for the PDF Creation in Myfilegateway

For Myfilegateway version 6.1.X and 6.2.X the current version of Jasper Reports 6.19.0 used to create PDF reports is outdated and affected by several vulnerabilities. Also the metadata of all pdf created by Myfilegateway provided info of the PDF C...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add red asterisks in front of required fields (same as tables already does)

This is already a feature within tables... it should be everywhere else to match.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Planned for future release

SI API's should update Admin Audit table just like other SI functions

We have identified a gap in that the API's do not update the admin audit table. The example we found is in the scheduling API. Turning on or off a schedule, in the UI is logged into the table with who did it, when and what. If the API is used, no ...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Showing of names of tasks and dialog when one hovers a mouse cursor

there are some tasks which have tens of dialog. The dialog names are too long to be fully visible on the icon. It is cumbersome to everytime right click+edit to see the dialog name while searching for the dialog to review/modify
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Increase the capacity of UI to accommodate API response and provide it as a download

Many times, the API outputs become huge over time due to which they do not fit the max threshold of characters set. Can we increase the threshold and also provide the option to download the output as it is convenient to analyze it in a text editor...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Planned for future release

Add options to expand equipment module items search

Many Clients have hub-spoke materials distribution, a central distribution center where replenishment occurs and stock is held in an "on-shore" plant, which supplies an one or several "off-shore" plants via transfer order. The way Equipment module...
over 3 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Planned for future release