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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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Ability to pick from a specific zone over other zones using sequencing

Our business would like to always pick from backroom zone over salesfloor zone regardless of inventory level Salesfloor - customers shopping area (700+ locations) Backroom - employee only with additional stock to supply salesfloor (611 locations) ...
25 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Under review

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Enable smart card login in myfilegateway

Since many companies use smart card login for security reasons, it was a good idea allow partners to login to myfilegateway using these method
13 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Keep Netmap CREATED, UPDATED, USED AS xNODE fields

There are inconsistencies with the logic of the NETMAP entry fields, CREATED, UPDATED, and USED AS xNODEs, as they can lose true history of the netmap entries. CREATED Date/Time stamp is lost on the netmap unload and load process and if $$REPLACE ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Enable Deeplink into Order Hub

Similar to IBM legacy call center we would like to have the capabilities to deeplink into Orer hub pages.
about 2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists