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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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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 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 1 Not under consideration

DB tool usability enhancements

The DB query tool that comes with OMoC 2.0 has multiple usability issues. 1) on running a query, do not scroll the query entry window to the top, but leave the cursor where it is in the window 2) I should not need to add a space at the end of each...
over 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Increase buffer size from 262144 to unlimited similar to SFG

Some of our clients when they try connecting through SSP they are facing error requested buffer size (1048576) is larger than max: 262144 When they connect directly to SFG they are able to send without any issue. We request to increase the buffer ...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 1 Planned for future release

Multiple Configuration Support for Integrated File Agent

I don't think Integrated File Agent currently supports or allows multiple File Agent configurations. Having this capability would support organization and separation of work. We currently use Integrated File Agent with our AWS ec2 instances. Havin...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

The Partner Community Manager CM_CoreProcess has hard coded typing maps which limits our ability to extend functionality of the framework

The latest version of PCM comes with the typing map list in CM_CoreProcess hard coded. This means adding, removing and updating the typing list requires modification of a built in process. Not only will this BP be overwritten in future losing all ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Submitted

Embed watsonx into IBM Sterling OMS to enable an AI foundation model that looks at all the OMS/Inventory data to provide a streamlined question/response dialog similar to chatbots and/or ChatGPT

The IBM Sterling OMS is a perfect solution to embed the watsonx solution. Building out a foundation model leveraging the OMS and Inventory data set would allow us to show a progressive approach to interact with the solution across various OMS pers...
over 2 years ago in Call Center 2

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

I would like the ability to download and use Distinct Values on the References tab.

It would be very helpful if I could download information from the References tab to Excel, but I do not seem to have the option. I also noticed that other functions that are available on the ITEMS tab such as distinct values are not available. The...
9 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Customer is expecting a product feature to collect the must gathers rather running a script to collect

LFG has been using B2Bi product for their key business use-cases. Whenever a product issue / project issue occurs, the support team is asking to collect 4-5 different logs. This is tedious job as they have to run customized script to collect the r...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration