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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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Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide Import/Export feature for ALL PEM objects

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Better LDAP Integration for Authentication

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over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Not under consideration

Allow conversion of mapped fields as PDF

To preserve integrity of the generated data contents, businesses are increasingly reliant on PDF documents to improve document readability (due to fixed formatting) and integrity. Secondary concept / objective: To generate a standard PEPPOL e-In...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Not under consideration

Need a central management and distribution system for File Agent rule

In China many banks, especially medium and small size ones, adopt shared folder to exchange files amongst different kinds of business systems. Even they decided to adopt a new file transfer tool to exchange files due to security, audit, etc, they ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration

Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows. In our organization providing service accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our s...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Mandate Inventory Status selection when counting with variance for the new Location/SET

When user is trying to add inventory for the new Bin/Location it is letting to add the inventory without selecting inventory Status in the dropdown , this causing to add the inventory into SIM with inventoryStatus post approving the variance.
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add an Undo Button with Control+Z functionality

Undo (Ctrl+z) should undo the last few actions. The UI designer makes it especially easy to accidentally move an item and there is no way to move it back. Simple mistakes like this should be undo-able.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Clone option for Code list item Config:Center:

We generally add new entries (SenderID/ReceiverDI Lookup) to the existing codelist table. where most of the time we endup adding same Text1 to Text9 values to the new entry. Hence by having a "clone item" option beside the "Add item" it will be he...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration