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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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Quick actions from Lookup Inventory

Objective: Introduce location‑level Quick Actions directly within the Item Lookup screen, allowing store associates to initiate common SIM inventory tasks without navigating away from the lookup context. Each eligible location line includes a “Qui...
2 days ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Submitted

A change in the aleclientnw.exe code to handle extended ascii encoding

See tickets for details: TS021255653 , TS020980199

MARKET SYNC GOOGLE.com/CLOUD SHELL Container ENABLE ORACLE JAVA ENTERPRISE SQL server MANAGEMENT ROBOT DEPLOYER(s(JOB))EXECUTION intall workload PROUDCE FILE.SETUP then initialize errorless SQL queried(S)

PROUCT programming CREATING DATASCIENCE including TECHNOLOGY upgraded VERSION of ORCHESTRATION manipulating OFFLINE/ONLINE DIRECTION WORKFLOW syncing SHELL CLOUD GOOGLE https://jackiesfilms.verify.ibm.com/ui/admin ADMINISTRATOR GMAIL client from P...
2 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

MFA support for SFG via OpenID connect or SAML

Currently SFG does not support MFA. We would like to have MFA support via OpenID connect or SAML due to security reasons in our company. Suggested workaround via Secured Jump Host is not compliant to our internal regulations.
3 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Submitted

Automating Control Center (CC) installation and configuration externally parameters to pass

Currently, during the execution of configCC.sh, configuration parameters are typically provided in interactive mode, or they are read from the static configuration script runConfigCCSample.sh, where values are hardcoded. For automation purposes, t...

Simple Report on user or IP and the Cipher/Algorith/Mac/Key Exchange they used to connect for the SSP

This is useful information for larger organizations who need to deprecate older ciphers/algorithms/key exchanges. If you don't own/purchase CCM there isnt' a way to do easily do this. Which is odd since the information is contained in the SSP logs...
4 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable payment processing in B2B Contract Orders

We are looking to leverage Contract Orders as the Parent entity for our B2B large-order fulfilment process. A single large B2B Contract Order will serve as the source, spawning multiple Sales Orders based on specific attributes. The customer will ...
6 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Remove the UPPER function for phone number.

Advanced search Ship to in call center is not performing well for phone# searches in pre-prod and prod environment and takes around 1min to respond. The query we see taking time here for Advanced Search Ship To is: SELECT YFS_PERSON_INFO.* FROM YF...
9 days ago in Call Center 0 Submitted

Update Connect:Direct to Support Newer Visual C++ Runtime

Currently, IBM Connect:Direct for Windows version 6.4.x requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 12.0 (2013). As confirmed in support case, this dependency cannot be removed and there is no ETA for modernization. Many enterprise security team...
10 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

Allow myFG 2.0 to be hosted on different URIs

Some customers use custom URIs when exposing myFilegateway so that they can better brand the experience for their customers and potentially have different portals for different sets of users. Currently the my File Gateway 2.0 has the URI hardcoded...
11 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Submitted