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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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Update Get Partner API to Include UserId as Input

Since you are not allowed to add emails across two accounts, it would be good if you could check if an email is associated with any partner already. The Get Partner API does not allow you to search by userid as an input. Adding userid as a input w...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Popup on Partner "Start task" when Campaign Waiting on Sponsor Action

It is not clear to partner's when a campaign is waiting for Sponsor's to complete approvals/tasks. Currently, the partner is able to click the "Start task" button, but nothing happens. The icon at the top of the screen is small and not obvious to ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Support External Authentication of PEM users (Sponsor and Partner users)

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

MAC Algorithm Updates

We have a vendor that is requiring that we use "hmac-sha2-512" for our SFTP connection to them. I don't see that as an option per the documentation:The MAC the client prefers to use for stream encryption. Required. Valid values are:hmac-sha1hmac-m...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

IBM Control Center Email Alert Formating

Email alerts, from Control Centre are in plain text format. Can the alert email format be using for example XLST and HTML to mark critical warning and success with appropriate coloring? Can we have for separate, for each alert, its own configurati...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Control Center: Enhance the SLC Summary Report

Please enhance the SLC Summary report so that a server name can be selected. A user may not want a summary of all of the slc, but maybe just the ones from a specific server. Currently no filtering criteria available for this report.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

Control Center Quarterly Recurrence Calendar

Currently when creating a new Control Center calendar, the only recurrence selections available are daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. I believe it would be useful to add a quarterly recurrence as well.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Provide documentation for importing Control Center to a new server

Much of Control Center installation documentation is focused on doing so in place on an existing server. Please provide detailed documentation for migrating to a new server. For example, we currently have a production 6.0.0.1 environment and the d...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Documentation 0 Planned for future release

Update Attribute via API Call

Would like to be able to update a user attribute through an API call. For example if attribute "Rollout" exists, would like to change value of "Rollout" from an API call outside of MRM (similar to how Bulk Upload works). This is something that may...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release