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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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Utility to keep Cassandra tables in sync

There are times when Cassandra nodes may get out of sync and some of the nodes may deem it appropriate to bring back records that should no longer belong in the tables. For example: mailbox.messages, mailbox.messages_by_name and mailbox.messages_b...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Implement Emails for proactively monitoring API and agent's performance.

Similar to what we have on SST for MQ alerts where we can add thresholds it would be useful to have options to add alerts around API thresholds, Agents response times. This will be useful for customers going into Peak to foresee any issues of agen...
about 2 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Under review

Automated UNSPSC Classification functionality

Since MRO IO team is working on enhancing the features for catalogue cleansing, can you please consider introducing a feature to automate UNSPSC classification using LLM (AI). This will benefit all your clients who currently do not use UNSPSC in t...
19 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Saving preferences on transaction view

Possibility to save preferences such as: Keeping columns in the view Number of transactions on a page Number of attributes in attribute view As it is now, it all resets everytime the log is left and revisited.
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

More sorting choices available

It would be appreciated to be able to choose more possibilities to sort. There is also a bit of an inconsistency of how a group is sorted. The list of transactions are sorted descending but within a group the sorting is ascending.
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Needs more information

be able to schedule the deployment of a map/ envelope

We are used to receive requests to move map, envelope or code lists to Production on specific date/time. Sometimes we need to contact teams from other geographies for them to finish the work because the time is out of our business hours.It would b...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

SIP Promise: Introduce Jurisdiction and Exclusion while calculating promise

Jurisdiction and Exclusion - Based on the Product Attribute and Shipping Group for Address whether Fulfilment allowed or not should be considered with in SIP promise to provide EDD and shipment assignments. This is required to manage carrier const...
20 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Needs more information