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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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Multi Faceted search support in catalog search API

This enhancement was done in 9.3 and dev prereleases was provided but it is not present in newer versions. It adds support for multiple facets in search for product in call center or store or any consumer application.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Display Starting position of the field in field level properties for "FIXED, IMPLICIT" group/file.

In ITX, when the group is defined as fixed and implicit, to identify a field position most of the time we must sum up the field length of previous fields when there is no layout. This would simplify the identification of field in positional files.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

SalesForce Case TS******* email notification to have Client Name in the Email Subject

Email notification from SalesForce only have ticket ref and initial comment in Email Subject. It would be very helpful to see from an email subject (or even content) which client/customer the ticket has been opened by / updated by. At the moment w...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 2 Not under consideration

Order Management on Cloud dataload to use DB Index and runstats for table YFS_ITEM

During an OMoC initial dataload there can be a need to upload 1M+ item records to the YFS_ITEM DB table. This table is initially empty and non indexed. This can make the dataload INSERT take a very long time when using the ManageItem API. There is...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

The 'To Date' in the Issues and Receipts window ought to reflect the latest system update date, not today's date

It's not intuitive and has confused new users that this 'to date' shows today's date -- and doesn't as easily cement their understanding that system updates are monthly (where Delta updates aren't applied) especially when validating data with thei...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Not under consideration

Order Managment on Cloud INT Server instance to log failing MQ message MSGId and create alert.

Within an OMoC (Order Management on Cloud) environment an INT server instance (IntgName) integrates with the MQ QMGR for reading/writing MQ messages for OMoC integration processing. When the MQGET of a message from an inbound queue fails we see a ...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Sterling OMS on My SQL.

As part of migrating to open source. We would like to explore options running OMS in MySQL.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Trace File on failure

ITX being a robust product , there a strong feeling that when we look in to the trace on failure of a file its being bewildered or unclear at which point of input data error has occurred. New option can be introduced showing only the failing value...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Add support for alpha numeric TransactionId values in TLog data

Currently, TransactionId (trn_nbr) field in the TLog data feed is an INT data type.This should be changed to a "STRING" data type to support alphanumeric TransactionId values. Several retailers have transactionId values which are "strings" or alph...
about 5 years ago in Fulfillment Optimizer / Data Maintenance & Management 1 Not under consideration

AzureClientForB2Bi adapter documentation

We are trying to connect to Azure blob using Adapter - AzureClientForB2Bi but we could not find any detail documentation about various file processing we need to do by connecting to Blob. Please help with documentation.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Not under consideration