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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...
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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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Enhancement to Server Inventory Report - Add File Agent version

I think it would be useful if the version of File Agent that is being used for a Connect Direct server (Windows or UNIX) be displayed on this report as well. Especially for Connect Direct Windows because File Agent is still a separate component.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Connect:Direct ZOS Support for UTF-8 BOM and FB (Fixed Block) format

Cutomer evaluating Connect:Direct on Windows and ZOS feedback that Connect:Direct does not support UTF-8 BOM and VB to FB format. Customer compares C:D to their current MFT solution that already supports this encoding conversions out of box. Custo...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Add Release notes for 6.X in the format of 5.X

The Link - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS3JSW_5.2.0/nav_container_topics/sub_overview_release_notes.html used to provide complete details on what is changing in the version but for 6.X there is no update as such. This will help ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex di...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Need Additional Columns in Inflight Trading Partner Activity Report

The additional Columns in Inflight Activity Report ( Data Received and Data Sent Date-time stamp ) will help Clients (any SCBN clients)to generate more detailed reports. For instance, it will help them determine the time taken for data (i.e. ORDE...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Ext Events Notification should link to the event

When there is a notification for a new 'External Event', a hyperlink is there on the notification, but it does not take to the event or anywhere (basically hyperlink on ExternalEvent notification not working) This leaves the user to figure out h...
over 4 years ago in Supply Chain Insights 0 Not under consideration

To add search critirea or add an extra status option in InFlight to check exclusively the reprocessed entries in InFlight

This idea is to identify and lists out the entries that are reprocessed in InFlight separately. We can have an option in inFlight through which we can find out the entries which have been reprocessed. This will help us in listing out the reprocess...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Functionality already exists

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Add cipher support

Need to connect to a wide variety of Customers. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9D)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (0xC0,0x9E)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9F)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA0)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA1)TLS...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

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