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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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Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
3 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

To install Connect:Direct on Kubernetes using OpenShift Restricted SCC

When operating in Connect Direct for Unix operating in Standard User Mode, the SCC allows the following capabilities and SETUID and SETGID requires Privilege Escalation. The customer request the Privilege Escalation to be false. The product should...
13 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

Ability to configure Quick Notifications for critical transactions in processing state

Priority High Ask Ability to configure Quick Notifications for critical transactions . Details of Ask Currently, we do not have any tool that allows us to configure alerts or notifications with an interval shorter than 30 minutes. ERN can be confi...
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Under review

Provide native SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) integration connector for IBM Transformation Extender Advanced (ITXA)

Our security group is standardising on SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) for access requests and approvals. SailPoint already ships certified connectors for several IBM platforms (AIX, IBM i, IBM Security Access Manager, etc.) but n...
17 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

A feature that will allow users on Config Hub to select envelopes while traversing back and forth.

Traversing to the next page and retaining the selection was working in Config Center/Envelopes. We expect the same behaviour in the Config Hub/Envelopes as well.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

EPSDK API should allow caller to specify keystore and truststore for SSL/TLS connections

When Control Center is configured for SSL, an application using the EPSDK should be able to specify the keystore and truststore to use for SSL connections. Currently the EPSDK does a few things that don't work well 1. The SDK sets up a Trust Manag...
23 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters

InFlight API needs to support "Not Equal" filters.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 5 Under review

Automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM

Hello Team, We are planning to build the automation solution to download the Fixpack for the ITX & ITCAM , the current automation download binary does not support these products , can you add the capability for the same https://www.ibm.com/sup...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review