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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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Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
11 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Add custom filtering to the advanced filter option in the Historical Information Widget

Currently the tables within the tabs of the Historical Information Widget (form views) are able to be sorted but the advance filter option is very limited to only a date range or a (seemingly) random single data point. In my case the data point av...
18 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Add Certificate Authentication capability to the CD Web Services REST API web interface (swagger).

CD Web Services supports certificate authentication for the web UI and also for REST API calls, but the provided web UI interface for testing REST API (swagger, path is cdws-doc/signOn.html) does not. This makes it difficult to design and test sol...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Send record length and block size larger than 4050 on HPNS Connect Direct

The record size when it worked was BLK Size = 27944 and RECL = 3992 it was changed to BLK SIZE = 21742 RECL= 10871 and then the job fail to completed and abend in NDM
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 8 Future consideration

Display the SST Metric Data Correctly

Please refer to TS016456569. When the app system down happened due to max heap usage, the SST metrics display the heap or Default executor threads reached the max by searching a small window (30 minutes) under application server JVM metrics. Howev...
2 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Code lists that can be conditional.

It would be good if you could have code lists that are conditional so that these can be updated easily without being a full-blown configuration change. We have different plants that use specific MRP Types and Lot Sizing Procedures. The list of val...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Expose Max Stops property at API request level instead of currently as static, system wide

This will improve performance when running findInventory and other sourcing APIs. A high value of Max Stops has a significant performance impact so having the ability to dynamically set this property at API request level will add a lot of value.
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

USER Management API

Development of an API that can create and update user account, roles, and set permissions. An API of this nature would allow IT Management programs such as Saviynt to dynamically control user access within the application based on client's own Ide...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Ability to view deployment history till last 1 year in Self Service Tool.

Need to have deployment history reflected for the last 1 year in Self Service tool.
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

clean old backup file tool

The product should provide a tool to clean old file generated in backup directory following the use of setupfiles.sh. this tool should have option to delete only : file older than <period> file older than <date> files not from the last...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration