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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...
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...

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File Retention in Mailbox Post File Download in MyFileGateway 2.0

In the current state, MyFileGateway 2.0 does not allow for a file to remain in the mailbox post download. Looking for an option for files to not be invalidated/archived and remain in the mailbox for a pre-specified amount of days.
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Keep Filters When Switching from Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitory or any monitor

Our users often switch from the Active Monitor to Queued Activity Monitor and vice versa often. The user may have certain items filtered in the Active Monitor and then if they switch to the Queued Activity Monitor and back to the Active Monitor, t...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Out of the box purge agent for clearing entries in INV_INVENTORY_ITEM_LOCK table

As part of the Hot SKU implementation, Lululemon has enabled granular locking at the Item / Node / demand level by adding following properties in Customer overrides. This has improved the performance of the system by reducing database row lock co...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SEAS

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSPcm, Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Return quantity with three decimal places does not work in WCC.

While creating returns from WCC we cannot enter quantity with more than 2 decimal places. This field should be customizable, i.e., one should be able to configure how many digits they can have after the decimal.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Order hub permission to incldue options to controll node turn on/off and change capacity actions based on node type

The client wants to have the abiity to enable and disable stores for certain users but the same set of user should not have the ability to see turn off DCs. Similarly there should be ability to change the node capacity for certain users only for s...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Order Hub to have ability to periodically updated nodes in workspace based on a node selection rule

The client wants to have ability to create workspace that accepts a rule like all nodes with parent organization A and Parent Organization B and have the system periodically update the node list as nodes are added and removed.
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Mail Client adapter to allow Oauth 2.0 with grant_type as Client Credentials

The out of the box B2B mail client adapter allows to make connections to the mail exchange server for OAuth2.0 with grant_type as "Password" only. The grant_type as password is an obsolete and a vulnerable way of getting tokens and should allow gr...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Add equivalent of cdai_verifyUpgrade parameter

For silent install, users get a chance to set upgrade options (parameters). One of those is cdai_verifyUpgrade which enables/disables step that performs loopback transfer after upgrade to verify if upgrade was successful. If loopback transfer is n...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

COC Data Extract should send deleted records to the FTP to avoid orphaned records in target data warehouse.

When we remove and add new data thru API or internal code, the deleted records get removed and not propagated to the target system consuming the COC Data extract data published from OMS. This causes additional records to be retained in the target ...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration