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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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Column Addition to Item_Usage Tables

Please add the following columns to Items_Usage Table 1) Add "Projd_Usg_Dte" - When a user populates the Forecast Calendar with values, we stamp the item record with the date of the projected demand entry, but without this date also being populate...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Enhance RESTAPIClient service to retrieve headers

The current RESTAPIClient service is missing functionality to retrieve header information when calling an API. For example. When you do a call to an API (GET) with a custom header element (<X-CSRF-TOKEN>fetch</X-CSRF-TOKEN>) to fetch a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

: Message Version Number, Message Release Number and Controlling Agency values should pass from original Business document when we use wildcard in 997/CONTRL envelope

Currently the 997/control envelopes are generating with sender/receiver which are passing to original Business document data when we are using wildcard (*) in sender CONTRL /997 . But the Message Version Number, Message Release Number and Controll...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Encoding format data expecting from the codelist or transformation using SPE Adapter.

Currently SPE adapter returns the data with UTF8 encoding by default for the corresponding ITX external data harness functions supported by ITXA. These returned values from SPE in a string format as UFT8 encoding by default to the Transformation E...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

IBM Sterling Rest Services should support BASIC and STANDARD authstyles at a time in the same instance

LIMITATION: In IBM Sterling Order Management 9.4 and 9.5, Currently If we want to use Rest Services in one deployment we have to choose either of the one authstyles 'BASIC' or 'STANDARD' only. Customer has deployed SMCFS on 2 WAS instances to serv...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Planned Usage vs Actual Usage Accuracy

Ability to see how accurate projected demand is versus actual demand - on a item by item basis (possibly as a widget similar to Fcst Usage) but also on an aggregate Accuracy % for projected demand that is used in the system with ability to select ...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Better Export Detail clarity

client had integration issues over the past 2 weeks and client could not readily discern what exports had reached their ERP. Export Mgmt widget is helpful - though lacks ability to export multiple batches or ability to download the list of batches...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

We would like out of the box adapters for Sharepoint and SMB for file servers to allows file transfers to these endpoints

We move large volumes of files between servers and with some internal applications coming to the end of life they are turning to our MFT to transfer files from servers to sharepoint and file server (SMB). We would like to use built in adapter like...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration