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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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Expand PCM correlation to allow bigger datasets of key and value pairs

PEM Standard / Partner Community Manager Correlation requirements Customer has a use case where they will be processing large files in B2B via PCM and using ITX for translation. Translation will be outputting correlation data. The high-water mark ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
9 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
21 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Under review

Ability to be able to toggle to view all usage, scheduled usage and unscheduled usage in the usage table by clicking a check box

This feature would allow the user to easily view all usage for an item instead of having to add up all the usage from the issues table. The user could then also see the breakdown between scheduled and unscheduled usage to make a more informed deci...
about 1 month ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Reservation auto expiry to generate reservation events

Today if the reservation expired due to the set time , there is no availability event getting triggered for the same. Due to this, there is no visibility of actual availability being published .
22 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Allow Order Mod to Add New Line with Different Ship To Address When Simultaneously Cancelling Existing Line

Account Managers need to perform multiple modifications to an order at once. 1. Create order with 1 line item. Order line is in Created status. 2. Change order by cancelling line 1, adding line 2, and modify the Ship To Address with Override=Y Exp...
22 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Under review

Generated columns to be supported in Multi Format Logical files

We have a new Gentran configuration that uses an external SQL table in Application Definition. This can be helpful for us since we have a standard is creating a table. We have columns that have a "Generated Always" attribute and we encounter this ...

Track Changes to be available without user changes

The track changes widget is a great tool to see user changes and resulting system changes. This is very helpful for workflow after a data refresh to see what fields have changed that may impact the workflow submission. However, the track changes w...
23 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration