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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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null from JSON messages must not be treated as string "null"

When customer sends null for mandatory fields in a JSON message, this must be treated as empty field instead of string "null"
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered

Monitoring SEAS/SSP certificates

For now, Control Center Monitor able to monitor the certificates in CD and ICC certificates. It will be useful if we can monitor the B2Bi SEAS and SSP certificates also.

More Flexibility in Segmenting Inventory

We have various types of customers shipping from our warehouses, and our partnershps vary. Some partners are assigned a fixed # of units of inventory, while others are assigned a share (%) of units in a specific warehouse. It is important for our ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Support for Mac M1/M2 users running OnPrem containers.

On Version: IBM Sterling OMS V10Fix Pack: 37 (10.0.2209.2) When running the Fixpack 37 in the local docker environment, the SMCFS container is getting terminated with error code 255. While investigating the issue, found that this is due to running...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Delivered

Expand the 40-Character Limitation on the Size of the Launcher's Private Trigger Directory

Removing this limitation will create pod-specific private trigger directories and enable scaling up the Launcher into multiple pods/containers sharing a common application work area. This enhancement will prevent multiple Launcher from triggering ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 2 Delivered

Will connect:Direct windows v6.2 support running on MS Window server 2022?

We noticed that C:D Windows 6.3 supports windows server 2022, however, we would like to know C:D Windows v6.2 can support Windows server 2022 as well. Many Thanks.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

With the advent of later iFixes in 6.2.1.0 and in 6.3.0 moving forward need the ability to control ciphers for web and interop

The ability to manage ciphers for the secured web server/console (default port 58083) and interop connections (same port) was deprecated. Customers often have specific ciphers that must not or must be supported. Leaving a default set of ciphers is...

Change Request Status Filter does not align to what is displayed

In the Change Request module listing - Filters have been enabled to segment the list for reporting. One of those fields is "Status". The various "statuses" of Change request are selectable. However, when users "filter" for the "Processing" status ...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered

ETS is skipping One Day when ETD is falling on Non-Working Day.

When Saturday and Sunday is non working day for store ,And Transfer Order is created on Wednesday(post cutoff) or Thursday(precutoff) from that store ,ETS of TO is skipping Thursday and it is showing on Friday ,even though Inventory and Capacity o...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 29 Delivered

Auto-hide of record header

As you move up and down the "Form View" of an item record, the record header will drop down and back up. This is irritating to users as they are often needing to validate the item/material they are looking at mid-scroll, and then they have to scro...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Delivered