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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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Enforce HAZMAT compliance during Packing process

During packing process, the store associate should get a warning to affix appropriate label for hazmat item(s) included in a package based on the UN# associated with the items. These labels are typically stock labels and the person packing the pac...
over 4 years ago in Store Engagement / Security 0 Planned for future release

Increase OOTB YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size to 5M

The current YFS_REPROCESS_ERROR.ERRORMESSAGE columns size is only 1M and is bit small to handle a big message when dealing with dataload related tasks. Under error condition, customer is seeing large number of exceptions in the log indicated -302 ...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Mannualy Delete an Alert

Customer is one of the biggest bank in Brazil. They have the need to, as soon as the action handle an alert, delete the alert from the list
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Add 'by UPC' to advanced search options in Pick Order screen template (same as existing in Pack Order template)

The Pack Order template out of box provides an option for searching by UPC and stores use it. Stores would also like this option for finding orders to pick in the Pick Order screen but it is not in the default template. We would like to have it in...
over 4 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add release and delete functionality to Queued Processes Monitor in Control Center 6.1.2.1

I believe I just found that there is no option to delete or release a process that is shown in the Queued Processes monitor (aka Queued Activity Monitor). The only option is to clear. The functionality to delete or release a process needs to be im...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Store Operations Dashboard

A way to show stats on a big/projected screen e.g. where are you in line for pickup as a customer during peak season or a different screen for daily / weekly / monthly stats/graphs etc. or in the backroom for store associates running list of tasks...
almost 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add cipher support

Need to connect to a wide variety of Customers. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9D)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (0xC0,0x9E)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9F)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA0)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA1)TLS_D...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance. It helps in avoiding outages

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance as a report. It helps in avoiding outages as well.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support MQ HA when configuring Topic for monitoring SSP

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Looping RC validation check

We have encountered this problem many times, there is no precheck in SFG that will check for loops before deploying the routing channel. Due to this problem, we have ran into huge recursive file routing loops which kept reprocessing the same fi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 2 Planned for future release