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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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Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Protect SFG for event flood caused by large volume GET requests of very small fiels

When the File Gateway is hit by a very high amount of GET requests to download small files will cause an event flood. As these events are tracked in the visibility db, this may cause the system to "hang" - all threads blocked - as the visibility d...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Future consideration

Add the Tag Mapping Labels to the Search Filter

Control Center 6.1.1.0 iFix03. When you create a tag mapping and tag label, the label only displays in the view column. When you select the add filter, the drop down displays as Tag1 Tag2 etc. So only administrator of the application know what the...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Transaction reports

We have upgrading the Partner Manger to ITXA and Presently in the Trading manager we have option to see the transaction report( see attached transaction report for details) we are looking not exact similar functionality but want to check if their ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Future consideration

Need to include velocity code in all cycle count pubsub messages

We need an inclusion of velocity code in all Pubsub messages i.e,countRequestCreated,countRequestCompleted,countTasksCreated,countTasksAssigned,varianceApproved,inventoryAdjustment(on variance approval for cycle count).Since we are trying to custo...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 3 Future consideration

Retry option in SEAS for any connection failures with LDAP server.

The retry option will take care of any internal connection failure instead of sending connection error for external partners/vendors.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Include tag inventory details on order hub inventory search screen

Include tag inventory details on the order hub inventory search screen and include tag value while adjusting inventory from order hub Currently, the Order Hub inventory search screen does not display tag inventory. It only displays inventory avail...
12 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Addition of an logical Assignee column to Change Request

Adding an rule-based Assignee column to Change Requests would allow client supervisors or managers to “asssign” a CR prior to being picked up by a processor.
12 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Add verification on security level of signatureMethod/digestMethod

On XML Digital Signature service, you can choose which signature and digest method to use when signing; http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256 https://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha1 However, when using the service in verify mo...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

To improve the messaging within MyFileGateway for the end user/customer

A user/customer uploaded a file in MFG and the file was uploaded when checking the Arrived File tab a message stating The system has not processed this file. Check back later and view the processing status using the file activity tab. This was the...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration