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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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Support to Rearrange Columns in a Table

Columns can only be inserted at the end of a table. Sometimes a new column has to be added in the middle of the table which requires requires existing columns be deleted then recreated in the correct order. The ability to either rearrange columns ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Support for Entry Validation Reordering

The order of entry validation determines how entries are evaluated, however entries cannot be moved up or down the list in the UI. In order to create successfully create entry validation criteria, the ability to either insert entries at any place ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Segregate PR and PP JMS properties instead of overloading them into one and forcing 2 copies of MountFiles

If embedded JMS is used, the Partner Repository and Partner Provisioner use different values in the same property "enable_jms_features" in Setup.cfg file. This makes it imperative to create two distinct copies of the entire MountFiles directory to...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add native AS4 support to B2BI

We are a global manufacturer who has EDI trading partners in many countries. In Europe, AS4 is rapidly become a requirement. We would appreciate having our existing B2BI Solution (IBM Sterling B2BI) continue to be our one stop shop for all trading...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

Add the Tag Mapping Labels to the Search Filter

Control Center 6.1.1.0 iFix03. When you create a tag mapping and tag label, the label only displays in the view column. When you select the add filter, the drop down displays as Tag1 Tag2 etc. So only administrator of the application know what the...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Update SNMP support to v3

Security benefits, as per security issues detailed here: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-156A
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

FileTransfer using connect direct with S3 directly

The ability to support CDU/S3 direct access from on-prem nodes is not present in this release. if connect direct unix directly about to do file transfers with S3 would benefit the business. It would be a game changer in file transfers for cloud.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

referenced TypeTree (parts)

You can build one TypeTree or one strucutre and can use it for example as part of choice-group in another TypeTree. Everybody that use TypeTree as a kind of central unit and have to reuse these structures in other interfaces will benefit.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

read/write IIB environment tree in ITX plugin

Other IIB transformation engines can access all parts of an iib message (environment, local environment, ...). But the current implementation of the ITX plugin only allows to work with the payload of an iib message. Please enhance ITX plugin so ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 6 Not under consideration

Support updates for Alias Netmap.

Per IBM Presently Control Center cannot directly update the Alias. We need this to be able to support full netmap updates.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration