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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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Option to disable client authentication for Sterling Control Center Classic Console

Currently, our company will access Sterling Control Center Classic Console through desktop. With client authentication enabled for SCC, we need to maintain separate scripts on each user desktop. This will be overhead in maintaining multiple certs ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 2 Delivered

C:D 4.8: Add support for Windows 2016 core + clustered environment

At the moment, only Windows 2012 is supported in a core and/or clustered environment while more and more customers will do the move/upgrade to Windows 2016. In the actual context, the market tends to secure more and more their environments. By usi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

Add RequestType UnprovisioningRequest for each protocol (Unprovisioning API)

There is no way to unprovision a setup in SFG from PEM currently. This is a common request from clients. Following the PEM architecture of the codelist integration with SFG there should be a "Delete" configuration which then initiates an unprovisi...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Delivered

Add Event Processor Status to Dashboard on Web Console

Please add an item to the Environmental Health section of the dashboard on the Web console for the Event Processors. This new section would show the status of the Event Processors, how many there are, and the status. Similar to the status of Conne...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Generic Json to XML and XML to Json

An out of the box generic map to convert Json to xml and vice versa.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Delivered

Add SOCKS Support for All SSP Protocols

This would be useful in our environment so that we have the ability to refresh hardware at a more rapid pace without having to worry about maintaining IP addresses in the refresh or notify our customers that we are moving to new infrastructure. Ou...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Introducing TasktoReOpen option in Activity Action Dropdown

The Activity Action Dropdown is having currently five action items which are Start Activity , Send Alert, Close Activity, View Partner Details and Resolve Error. Resolve Error does only Resume Task of currently failure task, But we know the issue ...

Enhancing Partner search capabilities with Email ID

We have option to search the partners with Company Name only , but most of the cases admin teams knows email id of partners only , imagine if PEM is having 10K partners and admin team knows only Email ID of partner. It would be good if we have sea...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Enable TLS support for JDBC database connection

Cannot find any reference in Sterling B2B Advanced Communications documentation that TLS is supported for connections to the database. Requesting to add support for this feature.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Need Threshold based ATP publish for DG Availability changes.

DG Availability was triggered every time when a store reaches capacity and IBM COS buckets are filled with more objects, causing backlog in consumption. Many stores were hitting capacity during the day and, every time this happened, IV triggered u...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Delivered