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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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Support for MS SQL 2016 and 2017 (and 2014 compat mode)

Requesting support for MS SQL Server 2016/2017, including support for the SQL Server 2014 compatible modes.

Code Lists and data tables should be searchable on all fields

Customers want the ability to search generic data tables and code lists using data fields other than the primary field. This would allow PEM to be a more accessible system of record.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Delivered

Add SSL Support between IBM Control Center and WebSphere MQ to monitor Sterling Secure Proxy

Security mandates that all the connections need to be secured. WebSphere MQ supports SSL but not IBM Control Center, adding this functionality allows meeting the newer security requirements.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Delivered

Add SSL Support between Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager / Engine and WebSphere MQ

Security mandates that all the connections need to be secured. WebSphere MQ supports SSL but not SSP CM / SSP Engine, adding this functionality allows meeting the newer security requirements.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Add ability to send e-mails from within a Portal activity

It would be beneficial to be able to send custom e-mails from within a PEM portal activity, as part of the workflow. For example, when a task for a specific group is the next task to be executed, the activity could be coded to send an e-mail to th...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 4 Delivered

Make fields with regard to password expiry customizable

FORGOT_PASSWORD_EXPIRY_DURATION_DAYS RESET_PASSWORD_EXPIRY_DURATION_HOURS These values are set to very high values by default and cannot be customized in our cloud instance. We'd like to see this changed. It's a dedicated inst...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Delivered

Bulk Upload of Users

Why is it useful? Currently, we are limited to add maximum of 5 users by filling up the First Name, Last Name and Internet Email ID individually. As we are actively on boarding the different business units across IBM Systems Supply Chain Organizat...
almost 6 years ago in Supply Chain Insights / User Administration 1 Delivered

Have statistics Records (CT and maybe others) indicate the true node a transfer was sent to when ALT.NODEDEF is coded in the Netmap for a node

Currently if two nodes are defined NODEA and NODEB in the netmap and NODEA has ALT.NODEDEF=NODEB coded, if NODEA can not sent to its primary IP address coded then the file will be sent to the IP address coded on NODEB. The issue is that the CT sta...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 7 Delivered

Support of Diffie Hellman Algorithm- Swithcing from SHA1 to SHA2

Tyco Electronics wants to switch over to SHA2 to trade with its partners. However the product doesn't support this feature. Not having SHA2 support in SSH handshake is preventing them to trade with their critical partners as some of their partners...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 8 Delivered

Need ICC be able to monitor SEAS servers. Currently, ICC can monitor SSP and SFG. It should alos monitor SEAS.

So, I don't have to setup a separate third party tool to monitor health of SEAS.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Delivered