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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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Multiple Configuration Managers supporting proxy/perimeter servers

Currently SSPcm is a single point of failure since only 1 instance can manage a set of proxies. If the one instance goes offline, the proxies being managed a stop functioning correctly
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Future consideration

findInventory API does not allow to bypass inventory of shipnode passed in the input in case inventory transfer to be peformed forcefully

Hi, Now a days, we are getting requirements to implement scenarios to transfer the inventory from one node to the ship or pickup node though there is a inventory available in ship node. These are the route to store scenarios for most of the clien...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Support Alternate UOM for the item pricing and promotion

Typically alternate uoms have a different pricing than the primary uom. The application currently allows to define pricing and promotions based on primary uom only. I believe the application uses primary uom to identify the item but that should no...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Operating System version to be collected by ICC and displayed.

Currently Control Center shows the Operating system as UNIX, Windows etc. It would be more beneficial if Control Center could display the actual OS version , eg Windows 2012, RedHat 6.8.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Integrate iKeyman with Connect Direct Web Services

IBM Control Center and IBM Connect Direct Secure + both have iKeyman integrated/included with the product. Why isn't this the case for Connect Direct Web Services?
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Implement 'Hold' for a bulk product order for up to 30mins (or XX mins) as per OMoC SF ticket TS002131182

Add following functionality for 'On Hold' bulk items up to XX mins. As per following scenario ... We have created a remorse hold, to hold order's for 30 mins. To resolve the hold, we have created hold processing agent which is abstract transaction...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Check for inventory availability while adding a line for reship, the CSR should have immediate feedback as to whether it can be fulfilled.

Currently in the call center the reship function blindly adds the reship order line without doing an inventory check. I don't know that it needs to be as involved as a wizard such as adding a line though it does need to be more involved and at lea...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requiremen...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Enable purging data from transaction tables directly, instead of first purging to history

We currently have userexit purgeOrderToExternalDataStoreUE for purgeOrder. This was provided by IBM on our request. We are using this currently in production. This only covers orders and its related entities, but not shipments, receipts, work orde...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration