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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 download and have additional filters in the References tab

I find that the References tab is very useful, but I need to be able to download to Excel so that I can do proper analysis. Additionally, I would appreciate the ability to have additional filters similar to what I have on the Items tab (ex: Distin...
7 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 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

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Capacity assessment of ITXA Rest Server

We are developing ITX maps that will access ITXA codelist for several fields mapping. Below are the expected scenarios: 1. There will be 100s of ITX maps to be developed to access ITXA codelist 2. Each map can access several times in a single exec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Allow PS log file name to be configured with standard name

Currently the PS log file name is like PS.Logger.Dyyyymmmdd.Thhmmss. It should be configurable and follow the same name convention as what's used in CM and SSP etc.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SEAS rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SEAS m...

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Return Order Invoice should not automatically reduce the LineCharge(DISCOUNT). If it is more than LineTotalWithoutTax but equals to LineTotalWithTax

Scenario: A Sales order is Created-Scheduled-Releases-Shipped-Invoiced(Either Order or Shipment Invoicing), Item theft reported, Customer care gave entire line total as a discount. Later item was identified at a Carrier location, and processed as ...
about 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under 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

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