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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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A feature which will allow BA to move from one company to another company.

Hello, The main idea behind opening of this RFE request:- Due to some companies being sold to other SCBN customers companies merging into a single contract. Reconfiguring the entire BA manually under a different company can lead to any errors that...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding / Other 2 Needs more information

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...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Needs more information

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

Conditional Runtask/Runjob

We need to execute processes after receiving files from clients, today this process depends on the client adding the command we need to execute in its transmission process. This is done via runtask and runjob and works well, however when we need t...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 6 Needs more information

Audit Trail (2/4): accessing audit data in the back end

When accessing the SCIS TS solution with our login, and using the Graphical User Interface, we cannot see the origin of data. We would like to be able when clicking, through the standard GUI, on a product/document/event/facility to see the date/ti...
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information

Revoking a shared data authorization

We need a way to apply changes to the shared data status with the "interested parties" feature. Some data can be shared for a time then revoked later when a partnership between organization has ended.
3 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 1 Needs more information

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
29 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Needs more information

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Needs more information