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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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Solution to Prevent Inventory Availability going negative

Currently when an inventory is added through cycle count or removed through Transfer Order we have a default segment as WALK_IN for IV system. But in some cases it is leading to negative inventory in WALK_IN segment when there is inventory only in...
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Add a "reject" button in addition to approve and defer.

The current practice of our users, if they do not want to accept the tool's recommended parameters, is to make a note, select "approve" but leave the export button unchecked. It can be difficult to determine whether or not the tool's recommendatio...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Projected Demand Widget

Our clients have been asking for this functionality independently and every time they see Change Request module they ask "can a user submit a forecast? that can be updated in the record?" Currently that is not possible.
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enable IBMID/Federation at individual OMS application level

The enhancement will enable enterprises to configure sterling module (e.g., Contact Center, Store Engagement, Console) access/ login approach independently of the module. This would allow the enterprise to choose, per module, either log in via SSO...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Improvements to JMS monitoring screen in SST

I'll attach my suggestion / queries in a docx as it includes some pictures. In summary, since the move to the new JMS monitoring we have some questions and suggestions for how it could be improved, in particualr on the Queue depth graph and the qu...
8 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

We have refresh netmap in Mainframe Connect Direct and its not available in Linux connect direct

We had an issue with connect direct process, In the middle of file transfer client brought down the connect direct in primary server and brought up in the secondary. Since the process was interrupted and its keep retrying the primary server. Its n...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration