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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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API to update Order Service Document status to null

Current Process: When an order is synchronized, the document status is set to null. Once the order is archived, its status in OS changes to archived. Issue: When an order is restored to Sterling from OS, and if Sterling is not integrated with OS f...
6 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 5 Not under consideration

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1

When a scheduled work order that initiated a purchase via reservation is changed it should not be allowed to be closed or moved without addressing the impacted Purchase Requisition(s) or Purchase Order(s)

You are committing dollars to purchase products that may not be used for a long period of time or potentially ever. Giving visibility to operations and supply chain will allow for better decision making before work is cancelled or deferred.
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Needs more information

Enhance Putaway Preferences

As part of this request, we would like to address 2 issues: Putaway preferences are not assigning putaway locations directly (using include/exclude locations) and we had to implement a workaround using location dedication to a specific inventory s...
6 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

BP Exit Service

Add a "BP Exit Service", to cleanly terminate the current BP. Essentially the same as the "BP Exception Service" but without triggering an error.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

We request product support for C: D on IBM i on PowerVS.

We are seriously considering running IBM i on IBM cloud, and the lack of product support for C:D running on IBM i on PowerVS become a major barrier. I think that the behavior of IBM i on PowerVS is the same as physical server, so please support C...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Functionality already exists

Display of Translation error in the Inflight search Dashboard

Every time we see any translation failure in Inflight, we will have to open the error-ed entry to see why the transaction got failed, and Inflight eventually do not show up the error immediately if there is any failure. It would take time to load ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration