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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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Lead times on the combination of node and item level (B2B)

we propose the following enhancement:​ For calculating ESD and EDD, OOB OMS should consider lead times based on the combination of Node (Ship Node) and Item level. Additionally, the selection of parameters to be considered—individually or in combi...
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

For calculating ESD and EDD of Sales Order, OMS should consider receiving calendar too

we propose the following enhancement:​ - For calculating ESD and EDD, OOB OMS should take in consideration both the Ship Node and Receiving Node calendars for Sales Orders too​
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Whenever the receiving node is marked as "OFF" in OrderHub, the system should prevent order creation.​ In case the order is created and the receiving node is inactive, automatically move order to a "Backordered" status during scheduling, regardless of the AssumeInfiniteInventory flag or actual inventory maintenance in OMS.​

IBM Sterling OMS currently supports backordering only when the Ship Node is marked as dirty and the AssumeInfiniteInventory flag is either set to 'N' or null.​ In this setup, if the inventory is not maintained and AssumeInfiniteInventory = Y, the ...
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

"auto-refresh" browser functionality on myFileGateway 2.0

Recently, we observed that when downloading a file through myFileGateway, the file is still displayed by the browser and we must refresh the page to don't see the file anymore in the folder, The case TS006115503 inform us that SI doesn't have this...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Enable FTP, SFTP 1.0, and HTTP client adapters to support all asi nodes

Customer is planning to use horizontal pod autoscaling in B2BI/SFG such that if the CPU usage gets too high on ASI node one, it will automatically scale out another. The issues is not all client adapters support running on "all ASI nodes". They re...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Future consideration

Ability to download and have additional filters in the References tab

I find that the References tab is very useful, but I need to be able to download to Excel so that I can do proper analysis. Additionally, I would appreciate the ability to have additional filters similar to what I have on the Items tab (ex: Distin...
5 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
over 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

AWS S3 access-key and Secret-key Import/deployment option.

Option to deploy/import access-key/secret-key details into our product table. So that we can fetch those values while creating AWSS3custom protocol in IBM Sterling File gateway. This way we can able fetch Bucketname, access-key/secret-key values e...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 1 Future consideration

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration