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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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Enhance REST service functionality to accept additional content types.

Vendors such as Adyen have the Content-Type as "application/json; charset=utf-8" rather than the standard application/json content type. The request is to enhance the OMS webservice functionality to accept content types that include the character ...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support token based authentication for HTTP adapters and Product REST communications

We are using the 6.1 product REST, the REST Auth.war and a set of custom REST services (the latter two in HTTP Adapters). We have a security challenge on the use of Basic Auth for securing these services which we access via a gateway (Tyk) from a ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Rotables Logic Widget

A Functionality around Split Valuation materials to allow for overall right-sizing Core, Repaired, New, Capital materials from SOH and ROP/MAX = How many of each type is needed, how many are "in rotation" where are they, how many are due back eith...
11 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 6 Future consideration

Capability to integrate SaaS logging mechanism with 3rd Party applications e.g Splunk

IBM SaaS has an out-of-the-box capability for monitoring and alerting. This information is surfaced in the form of Gray logs within the platform however there is no option available to integrate & exchange this information with other third-par...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

XMLjsonTransformer for conversion xml to json with array

The conversion xmlToJson generate a file with different tag type when the xml have an array with only one element
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Add Additional DL and custom message to the proactive notifications and service disruptions from IBM

0n 7/16, Network disruption at IBM end had impacted the Release order agent to look for GIV inventory instead of IV and closely 5000 orders got cancelled because of this issue. Later we restarted release agent to fix the issue. OMS team did not re...
11 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

DB Backup and Reset feature

To train guest services users on Sterling OMS functionalities primarily around Call center features, need to refresh the database meaning take a backup of a particular state of the initial order set and later restore the backup so that we can prov...
11 months ago in Self Service Tool 3 Future consideration

Multiple User Credentials

Our product team has grown exponentially; we now have around 9 teams with 2-4 developers in each team, and potentially all will have PROD access to IV at some point. Currently, we only have one generic user credentials to make changes in PROD. Thi...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration