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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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Ability to right click in order to comment and/or handle an alert

On Control Center 6.1.3 there are two different icons for commenting and handling alerts. The user currently has to select a check box and then click on the comment or handle icons for the alert. These comment and handle icons are static. Dependin...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

CDT Import and Export Ydk prefs save option in SST insted of manually copying

When we do CDT, we are pasting YDK prefs manually in SST, this may cause an issue due to human error. if we have an option to save this file in SST, will be helpful and human errors will be mitigated.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

Enable Control Center reports to display in multiple time zones

Currently when a user starts to setup a report to be ran, Control Center defaults with the time zone that the console preferences are set it. There is a drop down menu for other time zones, but when a user selects one of these, the report will not...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Provide a field on the Payment UI for return orders for user to enter the amount intended to refund against each tender.

Provide a field on the Payment UI for return orders for user to enter the amount intended to refund against each tender. We had requirement to add new payment method on return since it was requirement to refund to a new tender on return . Currentl...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Planned for future release

Email notification when API task is failed in Activity

Whenever activity failed due to any reason an email should get triggered. So that current search manual work will be reduced and also this functionality will increase the sponsor user experience.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Mapping Array values to dynamic table as drop down

In the PEM Table UI, when we map it dynamically it doesn't allow drop downs. It would be better if we enable this feature. e.g If we give Y|N to a static tables drop down column, then it will give drop down with Y and N, but the same thing, if we ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Improve Control Center Calendars

There needs to be more flexibility with Control Center calendars. Let's say for example, I need a calendar for January, April, July, and October to be daily. The way calendar maintenance currently works, if I select all of the active days for thos...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add Control Center functionality to monitor MQ MFT server over encrypted channel

Add functionality for Control Center to monitor MQ MFT servers over an encrypted channel.Any connections between Control Center and a monitored server regardless of type should allow for encrypted communications.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Planned for future release

Cluster Support and Certification for Connect:Direct Web Service 6.0

CDWS would be an integral part of Connect Direct as technological adaption of APIs increases. And when we want to have an API server, we would look at providing 24/7 services to our businesses. So we want to have CDWS on a clustered model especial...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Introducing new Resource Type for SFG Routing Channel Template

The Rest API has been introduced in SFG / B2Bi for Routing Channels Templates. It would be really good if a resource type is introduced like codelist in PEM. This helps in reducing the time of Partner Onboarding and will have all the information (...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release