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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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Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Sterling map editor - Adding option to copy/select multiple records/fields at a time

Sterling map editor does not support to select/copy multiple records/segment/feilds in the map
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

User Accounts with limited access control to Sterling File Gateway components

Sterling B2B Integrator should provide options to create & assign DENY permissions to Sterling File Gateway components. At present Sterling file gateway does not have the options to create permissions for specific components. We'll have to use...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Functionality already exists

Registration link to close after registering

After registration the link is not closing. Instead it times out and confusing people since the page is still opened.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 3 Functionality already exists

Office 365 Message Encryption/Decryption

Request is for Microsoft Office Message Encryption/Decryption functionality for SFG. This will be required where 3rd party Producers/Consumers are using OME as their preferred encryption tool.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration

Two factor authentication on SSP Config Manager for admin users

Access to SSP Config Manager GUI for admin users is via userid/password only. This request is for two factor authentication to be supported, via userid/password and RSA token
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Future consideration

Two factor authentication for admin users

Access to Sterling Filegateway for admin users is via userid/password only. This request is for two factor authentication to be supported, via userid/password and RSA token
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Add a polling feature to IBM Sterling B2B Integrator similar - to the IBM Sterling GENTRAN polling feature.

The GENTRAN polling feature we have used for years had made it possible to be very close to RealTIME in processing and getting files to their destination. Our internal systems and external customers have come to expect this, especially to meet SLA...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Functionality already exists