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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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Overwrite protection for transferred files

The current file transfer process lacks an essential feature: the ability to control file overwrites when a transferred file shares the same name as an existing file at the destination. We propose implementing a checkbox option to enable or disabl...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Future consideration

Please add 'Delete After Collection' functionality for mailbox protocol

The current implementation of the mailbox protocol lacks the ability to delete files after collection, which significantly limits its utility for our requirements. As we frequently need to remove source files post-collection, this omission renders...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Needs more information

Checbox to enable/disable error notifications if file in the source location does not match the naming pattern defined in Data Flow

Currently, when adding file naming pattern in DataFlow, PEM CM sends error notifications via email for every file in the source location that doesn't match specified naming pattern. The error notification is sent even if the file in the source mat...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Configure additional costs to be considered by SFO for optimizing the node

Apart from the Processing and Shipment Charges, that are being considered as part of the Shipping Model to calculate the cost to serve from the node, SFO should also have a way to add the cross-border customs charges, insurance cost and other misc...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

SFO to consider the ad hoc/unplanned node delays during optimization

The ad hoc delays need to be captured in SFO as separate parameter in order to account, longer processing time to ship the orders from the nodes during and post a sale event or, shortage in the manpower leading to delays. The ad-hoc delays need to...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Need a way to select multiple envelopes or maps and delete them all at once

It is very tedious to delete batches of envelopes or maps since you have to select each one, delete it, and then repeat with all the rest. There should be a way to select batches of them similar to how the export resources works and then delete th...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Provide a read-only role for the Partner Repository

We'd like to be able to provide sponsor users who are not admins a way to have read-only access to the items in the Partner Repository, such as Code Lists, Generic Data, etc.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Planned for future release

Provide a way for sponsor standard users to roll out an activity

We need to have our sponsor standard users to be able to roll out activities, while still being able to control their participation in a rolled out activity based upon the custom role they have been assigned to. Perhaps there could be a way, simil...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Not under consideration

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map name in the database

It is not possible to find unused envelope or map names in the database.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration