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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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Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add captcha in the IBM Sterling Store Engagement Application Login Screen for additional security

Problem Description: During the security testing, it was found that the login mechanism used by the Store application did not prevent automated attacks. This fact could be demonstrated by attempting to brute-force the login credentials of a testin...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Security 4 Not under consideration

Support STARTTLS SMTP

Our system implemented the use of STARTTLS SMTP and we cannot send emails from SFG
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows

Remove the need of 'Log on locally' permission for user accounts in Connect:Direct Windows. In our organization providing service accounts with 'Log on locally' permission is picked as a Non-standard security configuration and deviating from our s...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Need SFG to ignore the case for user name

We want the clients ability to connect to SFG using an userid not worrying about case, I.e., say in SFG the user id is called DTCCTEST we want the user to be able to use any case dtcctest or DTCCTEST or DTCCTest etc and SFG to be able to allow the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add captcha for IBM WSC OrderHub portal for additional security

Problem Statement - Brute-force attack/Reverse brute-force attack issues in the Order Hub console reported by security team. Description - When the attacker gets a hold of either username or password by some means, they can systematically check fo...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Add an Undo Button with Control+Z functionality

Undo (Ctrl+z) should undo the last few actions. The UI designer makes it especially easy to accidentally move an item and there is no way to move it back. Simple mistakes like this should be undo-able.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

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