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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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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...
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Provide support for S3 compatible storage

While many customers use S3 they may wish to use other vendors and universal support for S3 versus just AWS would be helpful
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Delivered

Password Vault Support for Connect Direct for Windows

IT Security forbids the use of static passwords and mandates that they are changed periodically.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Delivered

Block users from attempting authentication at the Secure Proxy level

We have a Secure Proxy engine that is exposed to the internet. As such we are subjected to a large number of "probing" login attempts from usernames such as "root", "admin", etc. All of our login attempts are passed to a Sterling External Authenti...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Connect:Direct Win/Unix Interface to Cyberark or other Priviledged Account Solutions

If a PAM-tool like Cyberark is in use, users don't have real logon-credentials for Windows- or Unix-Server any more; these are maintained by Cyberark.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Delivered

EBICS Order Types, Custom Order Types

We find the need to have the following 'order types' available in EBICS for B2B Integrator.​ GVO/Order type Description Direction Origin Comment/ Remark CCU Urgent Credit Transfers XML (URGP) G EBICS SCT urgent Pain.001 messages - Service Level UR...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Delivered

Ability to Add, delete, Update Servers and Ability to Add, delete, Update Metadata Rules & Metadata Actions through API

We need ability to perform below configurations in Control Center through API interface - Add, update, delete a server to control center Add, update, delete a server group to control center Add, update, delete a Metadata Rule to control center Add...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Location and use of CPIO file on Unix for CCD upgrades.

We are looking to have the automatic download location of the CPIO files used by the CDU upgrades to be a selectable location or a field that we can populate in the job configuration. By default, (and we're not able to adjust) it is <installati...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Delivered

Allow File Agent to be a selectable CDW component for Control Center Director upgrades.

When we run our CDW installs/upgrades, either via manual or automated installations, we do not choose to install the FA component. When we've attempted to utilize CCD as our lifecycle management tool, it automatically installs the optional FA com...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 4 Delivered

Need connectivity to Amazon AWS S3 through an Adapter

There is a growing need to file and data transfer to be either sourced from or sent to Amazon AWS S3 storage. We have an immediate need for multiple such requests today to integrate with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator at Novartis. We need a built in ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Delivered

With advancement of technology, Connect Direct needs to compatible with new OS versions and DB versions

We noticed that Connect Direct ver 6.0 is only compatible with Windows 2016 and SQL 2016. There are new versions of both Windows and SQL are available like SQL 2017, SQL 2019. ABN AMRO who is one of the prestigious strategic customer of IBM is usi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

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