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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

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

Need api to fetch total reservations made against the item (Aggregated Reservation Details)

At this moment there is no API which can provide total reserved quantities against an Item . This API is required to understand the aggregated reservations details for an Item , against all shipnodes . IF the shipnode is paased then the total quan...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

We would like out of the box adapters for Sharepoint and SMB for file servers to allows file transfers to these endpoints

We move large volumes of files between servers and with some internal applications coming to the end of life they are turning to our MFT to transfer files from servers to sharepoint and file server (SMB). We would like to use built in adapter like...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG, we can achieve Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG by calling Hello world http adapter with hello world bp. Here is a chance of raising false alarm though application is up & running state, but HTTP adapter is in dow...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

HTTP Proxy enablement on B2B Mail client Adapter

With the addition of OAuth2.0 authentication on Sterling B2B Mail client Adapter all connections to the Microsoft exchange server will now happen on Micro Soft cloud, which means that connection earlier would stay within the company's network, but...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

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

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

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day

How to monitor the file count for particuar files per day.. We have a partner who usuaully sends arounf 500 transaction per day but there are some case it incrases upto 2000 per day during whihc we will get infra issues wrt cpu heavy utlization ,...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

A new WARN() function, which would work similar to FAIL()

I propose a new function WARN(), which would work in a similar way to FAIL() and end the map with a specific warning code.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration