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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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Edit Activity Definition to Already Rolled Out Version

Currently, once an activity is Marked as Final, and rolled out to partners it is not possible to update that activity definition to those rolled out customers. This can be quite troublesome when an activity contains an API error or another error w...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set time for automated emails

We would like to be able to choose when the automated reminders are sent out. Currently they are scheduled to be sent at midnight on the 7th and 9th nights. This time has proven very unsuccessful. People are not sitting at their desks and it gets ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Add comments when resolving an error

Currently when a partner receives an error, the sponsor goes into the activity and clicks "Resolve Error" for each activity. We would like to add a comments section for the "Resolve Error" function. This would allow us to include comments in the r...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Better Search Options for Directory

We would like to request that the search function for the directory includes all fields, i.e. User ID, Given Name and Surname. So when a letter or string is entered into the search bar all User ID's, Given Names, and Surnames which contain the let...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add Search Functionality to Attributes in Company Profile (Directory)

Under Directory>View (CompanyProfile)>Attributes>Edit, we would like to add a search function for attributes. Since there can be up to 100 attribute values for one attribute field, and they are not in any particular order (that we could d...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

REST API support to convert not invited users to registered PEM

We need new REST API marking the status from NotInvited to Registered for PEM users and this only sponsor admin can call. The requirements have been discussed with OM and Dev team (Jagadeesh)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Basic Auth for Order Hub API calls to OMS

Currently our OnPrem OMS implementation works based of Basic Auth for external applications to connect with OMS. We are trying to enable Order Hub and we noticed that it is using JWT Auth for all API calls after initial login with Basic Auth. We a...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Store UI Inventory Adjustment Screen should be supporting Additional Configurable Inventory Reason Codes

In our project, there is a requirement to display 40+ inventory reason codes while adjusting inventory in Store UI. These reason codes should be displaying in the drop-down (i.e., the same drop down that OOB uses to display inventory reasons) and ...
almost 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Add DB2 11.5 support for Sterling Order Management 9.5

End of support for DB2 11.1 is 2022-04-30. We are currently running 9.5 on DB2 11.1.4.6 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition. We would like to upgrade the database to 11.5.6.0 or newer to remain supported.
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Same alternate UOMs to be used across same Item-Ids

Our company uses multiple UOMs for items. There are few alt UOMs which are maintained in an OOB table provided by IBM. When another item is being created with a different UOM in item table but same UOMs in alt table, the item creation failed, stat...
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration