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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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Connect:direct windows support ms windows 11 as windows 10 will be eos at 2025

Windows 11 support

High Watermark Report

How about adding the high watermark report back to the web client for 6.3. I have to launch the thick client to be able to run this report.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Delivered

Allow File Agent to be a selectable CDW component for Control Center Director upgrades.

When we run our CDW installs/upgrades, either via manual or automated installations, we do not choose to install the FA component. When we've attempted to utilize CCD as our lifecycle management tool, it automatically installs the optional FA com...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 4 Delivered

Include total count for pagination in BTS Trace API endpoints

We would really benefit from having a total count (or approximate total count) for the pagination in the respective endpoints, especially for a search use case. Right now, we're given a NEXT parameter, allowing an end user to move "forward" in the...
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Delivered

Partial matching in "Lots and Serials" endpoints for BTS Trace API

It would be very useful if we could implement partial matching in the Lots and Serials endpoint(s) in the BTS Trace API. To be specific, we were thinking about the following parameters: - lot_or_serial_id[] - product_id[] For our uses cases, this ...
almost 2 years ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Delivered

ExpectedShipmentDay calcualtion for special services to consider the ShipNode calendar.

This implementation would benefit for the customers, who calculate the CustomerPromisedDate based on the processing time of Special Services. As of now, it only considers the Inventory Availability of the item and ExpectedShipmentDate is being cal...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Delivered

RTAM publishing old alert quantity

We noticed that the RTAM does not calculate the inventory. but sends the old alert data from the yfs_inventory_alerts table. Issue is not replicable in lower environments , but PMR team suggested this could be due to cache issue in production as t...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Delivered

Make Field Userid optional in Secure+ Admin Tool "Save Active" Panel

When you are using Security Exits for C:D Signon, you do not need to specify a userid at signon. I don't need this at the update job for Secure+ as well. Using the "Save Active" Panel, you have to enter a userid, but you can leave the password fie...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Configure additional costs to be considered by SFO for optimizing the node

Apart from the Processing and Shipment Charges, that are being considered as part of the Shipping Model to calculate the cost to serve from the node, SFO should also have a way to add the cross-border customs charges, insurance cost and other misc...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Delivered

SFO to consider the carrier delays during optimization

The ad hoc carrier delays need to be captured in SFO as separate parameter in order to account, longer delivery lead times to deliver the orders from the nodes due to a sudden strike announced by the carrier. The ad-hoc carrier delays need to be c...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Delivered