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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...
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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MyFilegateway GUI

As per the business requirement we would like to have few customizations required on myFilegateway GUI like Mouse Hover Text, Column Name Change etc..,. Here attaching those requirements in a word document for your reference
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Under review

Disable concurrent user login in SFG and Dashboard

Currently for the Concurrent login with same credentials via different machines or different browsers, there is pop-up message which notify, that there are multiple sessions and upon clicking on "OK" button, both sessions kept active. Security tea...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Under review

Include transfer rates monitoring on active filetransfers

Please include file transfer rate monitoring mechanism on active filetransfers. We had an issue with partner where after partner side upgrade the transfer rate became very slow. The filetransfer that took previously minutes, was now hours long. Sa...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Under review

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Under review

Order Hub is not having a screen to view/edit reservation details like application console.

Order Hub does not have a screen to view/modify the reservation details for GIV users like application console. This can be viewed from inventory summary screen in application console by clicking on the 'Reservations' icon – Request for enhancemen...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has limit of 3 IP addresses

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has a limit of only 3 IP addresses. Whereas ConnectDirect on linux or windows systems have larger limit and also altcomm parameter to specify alternate IP addresses. This limits HP NonStop connecting to a unix/wind...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Add TLS1.3 Support for IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop

TLS1.3 is currently adopted most secure way of secure communication and IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop is still not supporting TLS1.3.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Under review

Enable option to adjust column width on Configuration Hub

Currently, there is no option on configuration hub to adjust the column width under the mapping or code-list sections. However, this feature is available in the config center, and it’s particularly helpful for viewing the full map or code-list nam...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Under review

SIP: Reservation api for a distribution group to consider shortage quantity for nodes associated to a DG

Reservation API against a distribution group, should consider shortage quantities of nodes within DG and restrict reserved quantities to consider shortage. When a reservation api is invoked for an item and utilizing the entire network (distributio...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

Config Hub - Pop up warning if Customer/Support/Dev Team updating the Codelist values in CTE to PROD for the variant type Codelist

We are using the Codelist Solution for below scenarios and if anyone inserted the wrong data due to confusion or manual error it will effect the lot of transactions failing or due to data missing in output files. Below are the scenarios: We are us...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Under review