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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...
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    Cancel Move from Adhoc Move screen

    Today, in Store Inventory Management (SIM), during an Adhoc movement, if the user clicks on the 'X' button, the movement is saved and moves to 'In progress'. But there is no way to search within the 'In progress' to see the movement for a specific...
    about 6 hours ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

    Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

    In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Planned for future release

    Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

    Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
    13 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Under review

    Movement confirmation message to show number of items

    Today when users do a bulk/adhoc movement, the confirmation message doesn't show the number of items that is being moved. Scenario for ADHOC: Consider a scenario where store user scanned 20 items, but only 19 got scanned successfully (one barcode ...
    2 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted

    IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

    Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

    Capability to scan destination location without having to first "select" location

    When executing a putaway task, user first scans the source location and then the SKUs. User then proceeds to the next page to deposit the product, but even if the destination text box with a scanning icon is present, user is NOT able to scan the d...
    about 1 month ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Under review

    Audits / Movement history of products on UI

    Today in Store Inventory Management, when an user does a Bulk/Adhoc move, it displays the move complete with the source, target location and qty moved for the SKU. But when you exit this screen, it is not possible to go back and see what movement ...
    about 2 months ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

    Configuring Inventory Snapshot in store local time

    Currently we have configured different stores at different time in UTC by converting Local store time to UTC. But during day light savings we are required to reconfigure it again. To prevent reconfiguring the Inventory Snapshot during day light sa...
    23 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

    Support service mesh for container deployments

    Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio
    30 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

    File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

    Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
    over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

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