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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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Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables.

Database extensions should have a provision to create indexes only on ACTIVE tables. As most of the queries/monitoring and reporting are performed on the ACTIVE tables. These indices may not be always needed on the HISTORY tables.
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Allow SSP engine certificate to be configured through configureEngineSsl.sh directly

The configureEngineSsl.sh script only supports importing configuration exported from CM. Typically CM and SSP engines are installed on different machines in different network zones. The certificates will be put on the servers directly. It's a lot ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center SLC Holiday Processing

Please add an enhancement for Control Center that will help manage SLC alerting during holidays. Currently, Control Center calendars do not reflect holidays. As a result, the operators may have to handle multiple slc alerts due to processes not ru...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Provide manageItemNodeDefn API

The createItemNodeDefn call fails if the record already exists and using modifyItemNodeDefn will fail if the record doesn't exists. So when Sterling receives the safety stock details, we have to first make a getItemNodeDefn call & then invoke ...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Being able to get alerted through intelligent data-driven alerting mechanism

Provide us an ability to get alerted as part of data driven alerting. Examples No Orders not created in last one 20 Mins Low Volume of Shipments from DC Higher Fraud Hold Pending Orders Schedule Agent backlog High Configurable by Channel, Threshol...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Real Time - Order Processing Dashboard required

We would like to measure the below KPIs (and get alerted) Orders Flow by Selling Channel ( Web, Call Center, Store) By Hour, By Day, Trend Graph for Previous day vs Current Order Allocation Summary By Fulfillment Channel ( DC, Store, DropShip) By ...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Enabling customer override properties as -D argument

We would like to have option of enabling customer_override properties as -D argument for java application, it will allow apps to support different combinations for different environment. In todays world everyone wants to deploy same artifact accro...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

IBM Fix for createException

In createException(YFSEnvironment env, org.w3c.dom.Document inXML) API, in logs we able to find CreateuserID vaiable, once we directly call this API with this ID its overwrite session object userid. So want you to not display this ID in logs. In t...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Avoid opening capacity on shipment cancellation using changeShipment API

Enhance the product to provide a configurable option in Sterling to avoid opening capacity on cancellation of shipment using changeShipment API. Scenario: Consider a node with available capacity of 50. When an order is sourced to that node, availa...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to issue a common build that includes all extensions

In the on-prem world, we would build custom extensions and issue smcfs build. In the cloud world, we are required to create UI extension jars (for call center, and other apps) and drop the respective jar files under respective application WEB-INF ...
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration