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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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Event Enhancements

1) In order to use new bucket or to change existing bucket config we have to raise PMR and it is time consuming because of multi team dependency. It will be good if there is API or SST process to update the event configuration. 2) Currently all di...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Gentran Server For Windows 5.3.1 Windows 2022 Server and MS SQL 2022 Compatibility

Windows 2019 Server is going end of life in early 2024 so to keep server OS supported there is a need for Gentran Server for Windows 5.3.1 to be compatible with Windows 2022 Server. Also would be nice for the Gentran database to be compatible with...

ITXA - Include "Created by" column for Code Lists in Trading Partner UI

Currently, the "Created by" column is not available for Code Lists, but is available for Maps and Envelopes. This column is needed to give developers and support staff visibility on who has created/updated Code Lists.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

[Copy] ITXA - Import mxl maps from SI into SPE

When importing a map from SI into SPE, only the .txo is successfully imported and not the .mxl. This idea would ensure that both the .txo and .xml are imported, and would avoid the manual step of having to separately upload the .mxl to the map in ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

To add resource permissions for the Order Hub home page.

Order Hub is used by business users apart IT support team and they might ending up creating the IBM ticket using the IBM Support link for any Order Hub issue.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to configure multiple IP addresses in a NETMAP config instead of just one.

This is useful as clients can change their servers or flip to DR when there is an issue and we have to update the same netmap config or have a CLP do it. Allowing this would be like MQ where we can have multiple IP's in a connection string. Many C...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 21 Future consideration

converting Node reservation(node1) into Node Demand(node2)

For DFS(delivery from store) often times a reservation made against a store may have to be reassigned to a different store due to inventory reasons. The legacy OMS makes the determination to resource to the second node. Note: For this implementati...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

Allow changes to duplicate item for cleanup after Manage Duplicates function is processed

When we Manage Duplicates, the item that we are moving the usage from becomes locked and we can no longer make any changes to that item. If we forget to set the item to Business Impact E and set the ROP/Max to 0/0 before we do the Manage Duplicate...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Work Queues Records missing

Problem: All but two (2) Work Queues are showing records in the Work Queue tab in MRO IO and WQ Section in OAS. Steps to reproduce: Log into NPPD Sandbox MRO IO and navigate to Work Queues tab and you will find the Work Queues are all showing zero...
almost 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Need to support criteria-based, more granular archive/purge policies for metadata and files

Requirement stated by customer is that B2Bi needs to support more granular archive/purge policies based on specific criteria such as trading partner and transaction type (identifiable through EDI Correlation).
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Future consideration