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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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Alt Comm outbound Retry feature

When failing to connect to primary host/ip, system uses alt com outbound to try alternate addresses. Should none of them work, system goes in retry state ONLY retrying with last hostIP in alt com outbound. This causes some retries to get stuck as ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Not under consideration

Certificate tracking in Secure+

Request that statistics capture serial numbers of SSL certificates exchanged during CD secure+ file transfers between pnode and snode. Serial numbers should be visible in select statistics and CD Requester.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct netmap may contain only 3 addresses on HP Nonstop

Hello, Today on unix, mainframe or windows the number of alternate ip addresses that we may enter in a netmap definition is unlimited. On HP Nonstop (not HP-UX), we are limited to 3 hostnames or ip addresses (the documentation says: IPADDR=ip.addr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Adding support for Pipes to Connect:Direct by z/OS

Adding support for Pipes on Connect:Direct for z/OS can help to speed up the overal file transfer process for distributing dat towards distributed platforms.Analogy to functionality already available in C:D for Unix.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Adding "Dictionary password checker" for password

Prevent clients from using common word for password.. e.g. password
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Inflight - User Access Export Capability

We would like the capability to export all user access information to include the role and permissions for each user. This export would allow us to import the data into our compliance system to ensure each user has the correct access. This is part...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Sponsor announcement message on partner home page

Ability for sponsor to add a welcome message pop-up on the home page once a partner logs in
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Copy/paste Dialog Objects

Allow items to be copy and pasted within a page. Item property ‰ÛÏname‰Û should then be Copy, Copy 2, etc.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Increase Width Limit of Dialogs

Currently there is a maximum width of 1000 px. We would like to request a wider dialog size option. This would help to fit information nicely on the screen and reduce number of screens.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Test Mode for Context Data

Since context data has been added to PEM we have created a second activity for transmitters who need the same activity rolled out to them multiple times. The issue with the second activity is that all APIs with the reference to context data automa...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration