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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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support SSL for HTTP notification

Currently the production offer a functionnality to generate http notification about transfert event (file sended, file receipted - start/end). The XML notification is pushed to an URL using the HTTP protocol. The message only push metadata of the ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

To Have a configuration which allows teams to consider multi-level sub vendors to create Chained order duringexternalize Inventory

Consider a scenario -We want to externalize inventory which is a Microservice outside OMS. We have a Organization set as below-Enterprise --> Main Vendor -->Local Area Vendor --> Actual store/person who has inventory. In this case with cu...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

Keep the display length selected for a page when returning to that page

When working in Card Builder (for instance), the default page length to display Cards is 10. It can be modified for the current display, but changing page and returning to it resets the page length. It would be a good idea to maintain the page len...
10 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Sync Supply to have a capability to just report the mismatches and not apply the differences.

We want a capability in SIP to just report / publish an event with the mismatches evaluated during the inventory synchronization flow and not always apply the same. Something similar to the " ApplyDifferences " capability in the GIV world. There a...
10 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

Enable partial line cancellation in Order Hub

Partial line cancellation currently works from Order Hub (only post turning ON 'Add Qty' modification rule for required order line and release statuses from DOM) – however it also enables line quantity addition feature which is not desired. There ...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Total of files sent to a specific partner (Report)

Customer wants to know the total of files sent to a specific partner in a period.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration