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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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Add Certificate Expiration Date to the list of fields logged for a partner certificate CERT= log event

Currently when a partner connects to our Connect:Direct server and negotiates a successful SecurePlus TLS connection, we can see other details of their X.509 certificate CERT= field like Common Name, Locality, State, Country, Serial Number and Fin...
17 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Include user email in Item history API

This API can be used to download and review past exports but currently does not include user email.
23 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Add Biannually (every six months) as a frequency option for work queues

Add Biannually (every six months) as a frequency option for work queues
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Call Center: Combat abuse of agent-facilitated appeasements via AI-backed assessment of new appeasement requests

When engaging a customer support agent, a bad actor might seek to exploit customer care procedures for illicit gain by repeatedly requesting various accommodations - whether the reship of an order or line item, claiming that it's lost, or a refund...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

Enable SIP IV Inventory consideration update in Order Hub (Custom Supply/Demand Match)

Currently Inventory consideration is not editable by Business users and is not allowing to onboard strategic Supply Integration with different Supply Type and make them considered for Promising after the reconciliation is complete
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Future consideration

Introduce Region definition in SIP and add regional sourcing rules set up similar to Sterling OMS

SIP does not allow managing region definition so that a given post code in the available to promise APIs input can be related to a region and promise calculation can use the region constraint defined as part of promising rules. SIP can easily supp...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

EnterpriseCode to be added as a Criteria Parameter for the Send Invoice Transaction

Currently, the out-of-the-box SendInvoice agent transaction does not support using EnterpriseCode as a criteria parameter. As a result, when the agent runs, it retrieves all invoices, regardless of the EnterpriseCode. The default query used by ...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Azure Event Hub Native Connectivity & Service Principal Authentication

Request that IBM provide native connectivity to Microsoft Event Hub in B2bi with authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would suppo...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Option to NOT allocate orders against PO data

Orders allocate to PO_PLACED if eta of PO is equal to or less than the current date. If suppliers do not provide ETA updates in a timely manner we could be allocating to POs that have not yet arrived or will not arrive on time. We still want to tr...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration