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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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To eliminate duplicate certificate in inflight import

Multiple teams import various certificates into legacy inflight, which results in duplicate certificates getting uploaded with a different name while the serial numbers for most of the certificates are same. When we import the certificate into Inf...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

All store inventory statuses mapped to on-hand should be pickable

Currently, inventory with valid on-hand status is not being picked due to store inventory status mismatch. This results in store inventory being stuck indefinitely and can't be picked to fulfill an outbound order. IBM Support had suggested to do a...
7 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Future 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 ...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Not under consideration

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

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...

Add capability to Connect:Direct to work around undesirable DVIPA behavior

We'd like to request a new initialization parm for Connect:DIrect (CD) to disable outbound TCP connection establishment until after the DTF opens its TCP listener ports. Our DTFs both send traffic and listen for traffic. We have had situations whe...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Capacity calculation to honor Node's locale

Since Capacity is used to control the number of fulfillments to be done from a particular ship node (either Store or DC), its critical to have the capacity calculation is done in the DC's locale instead of UTC. We have this requirement at Lands En...
about 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 5 Not under consideration

For the Netmap extract batch utility DGADNTLD to add map creation and updated date.

This request is to enhance the Netmap extract batch utility DGADNTLD to add map creation and updated dates. As of now, the extract only has the last used date. The created date is only available in the Connect:Direct panel options (in browse mode ...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration