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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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Enable SequenceGenerationKey usage in Router Action step

Currently, SequenceGenerationKey is only enabled to use with Basic transation action. It will be very helpful if we have access to use this with other actions too. ( Example : Enveloping, Router etc )
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Purpose field in pick request allows only two values SALE and TRANSFER, we need more values - REPLACEMENT, PICKUP

Purpose field in pick request is only allows two values SALE and TRANSFER, we need more values - REPLACEMENT, PICKUP. This will help store to differentiate what type of PICK request. We need purpose field value to be supported in pick preferences ...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 6 Future consideration

Ability for store associates to execute the adhoc cycle count without any explicit assignment

If we assign Adhoc Cycle count task link access to store associates, he is able to create a adhoc cycle count task, but he is not able to complete the task without manager assign the adhoc cycle count task created by him. we need an ability by ass...
almost 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 9 Future consideration

IBM CoC Data Extract Tool - Date Range Attribute required for extracting the data for the particular time period

In CoC Data extract tool, currently there is no date range attribute to configure directly into the tool. We need to manually calculate the days based on current time and required date. Based on that, we need to update the FirstRunExtractInDays an...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Not under consideration

support of Oauth2 & OIDC in Sterling integrator

With more and more "business" moving to the cloud, it will be essential
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration