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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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Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Option for formatting XML in File Details Tab

Input and output documents in XML are difficult to read when not formatted. Current options allow you to specify a character and break on it, but the closest you can come to formatting XML is using the > character and that doesn't put element n...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to monitor Connect:Direct I5 on any selected port.

Due to CIP mandate, Cigna is disabling all unencrypted ports and we need the ability to select an SSL encrypted port in SCC to monitor I5 Connect:Direct nodes. SCC currently monitors I5 nodes on default ports and current default unencrypted ports ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add a column in the EDI Searching files results as ISA Control Number into InFlight

Refugio Granados Bustos (Customer)Dec 20, 2021, 18:08 I want to see the ISA control number after the search result, but all the columns are referring to another things (Status, Date/Time, Type, Sender, Receiver, Reference, etc etc)...see the scree...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

GTIN based Inventory Availability and Scheduling in OMS CoC and Inventory Visibility

For our current client, inventory items are uniquely identified using UPCs(not to be confused with UPC in generic sense) and not SKUs, while the selling catalog identifies items using SKUs. These UPCs can change every year for the same item. For e...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Add line number column to be used for Active Alerts

On the Active Alerts screen for the Web console there isn't a line/item # column. This exists in version 6.0.0.2 for the Java/Swing console, but not 6.1 and above Web console. Add to user configuration view allowing users to select.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

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

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