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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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Ad Hoc Report Functionality

In version 6.1.3 and earlier when a report is run, the user has the option to keep/download in different versions such as pdf, xls, csv, etc and to email the report. However, in version 6.2, this ad hoc functionality has been removed. While an ad ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Include active MAXUSERS in high water mark SMF record

Highwater mark SMF record should include Active MAXUSERS to have full pictures of how region is performing. We've experienced BTL issues relating to high MAXUSERS counts and we don't have accurate insight into how many users are active at that time.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Planned for future release

File agent high availability run GUI cdfa -C from a single Default_Config.ser copy in shared workspace

Instead of maintaining multiple local copies of Default_Config.ser, could a parm be added to cdfa -C to direct GUI to use a single copy in the shared directory. Similar to the cdfa -w parameter.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Add ability to monitor Connect:Direct I5 on any selected port.

Due to CIP mandate, Cigna is disabling all unencrypted ports and we need the ability to select an SSL encrypted port in SCC to monitor I5 Connect:Direct nodes. SCC currently monitors I5 nodes on default ports and current default unencrypted ports ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Credential enumeration

Credential enumeration occurs when an attacker can determine the validity of credentials by observing responses in the application and identifying differences between correct and incorrect responses. Attackers may be able to use this vulnerability...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

Product class to be made visible in Store UI

In Sterling Store Engagement UI, when we do the inventory look-up, we will not be able to check inventory against each product class. Instead it displays consolidated Inventory across all Product class. It will not be possible for the store user t...
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Add a column in the EDI Searching files results as ISA Control Number into InFlight

Refugio Granados Bustos (Customer)Dec 20, 2021, 18:08 I want to see the ISA control number after the search result, but all the columns are referring to another things (Status, Date/Time, Type, Sender, Receiver, Reference, etc etc)...see the scree...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Map name in InFlight Configure columns section.

In the outbound scenario sometimes we have seen for same TP ISA ID we will have different maps being used and having map name in configure column would help to list all the maps being used by the same TP. In some cases we have seen TP comes up wit...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release