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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 for Type=simple startup method in systemd for Connect Direct

The systemd is the default system manager on RHEL 8. Connect Direct should support service startup through systemd using Type=simple startup method. User can use Type=forking with external (custom) startup script but this requires to create additi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

Container enhancement - Set group to 0

Currently the PEM container expects to be run as pemuser:pemgroup (1011:1011). The files and directories inside the image are owned by 1011:1011. When running on OpenShift, a random user id is used to run the container. This user is not able to ex...

Helm chart enhancement - Resources volume

Currently the PEM helm chart only supports one way to supply the DB driver jar to the application: 1. Statically provisioned PV bound to the PVC created by the helm chart A related application, B2Bi, has a helm chart that provides additional optio...

Need to include velocity code in all cycle count pubsub messages

We need an inclusion of velocity code in all Pubsub messages i.e,countRequestCreated,countRequestCompleted,countTasksCreated,countTasksAssigned,varianceApproved,inventoryAdjustment(on variance approval for cycle count).Since we are trying to custo...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Other 3 Future consideration

Sending email updates to stakeholders on env activity

When a deployment or a CDT is carried out on any env in OMoC, the stakeholders of the env needs to be informed by manually sending an email about the activity performed. This process needs to be automated. An email needs to be triggered to the env...
11 months ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Eliminate the compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace monitoring.

The compatibility issue between ICC and Dynatrace prevents use of Control Center Webconsole. Only remediation is to disable the Dynatrace UI agent on the application node. We use Dynatrace for monitoring of all our Sterling Infrastructure and woul...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 3 Not under consideration

SSO Authentication

Need OMS to integrate directly with customer's ID provider so they don't have to use IBM ID.

EDIDeenvelope Service needs support zero document CII standard data

SBI support normal CII Standard, but zero document CII standard data with only Interchange header and trailer data recognize bad data in EDIDeenvelope Service. Please support zero document CII standard data.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration