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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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Enabling Partner Onboarding In Global Mailbox When One Of The Data Center Is Completely Down

In Global Mailbox with multiple data centers, if one of the data centers is completely down(including SFG, GM wlp, Cassandra), we are unable to create/update any new partners
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Delivered

API to GET all items having supplies for a node

IBM Inventory Visibility Service does not provide an API to GET all supplies available for a node. In our implementaion, there are hundreds of shipnodes. Also, many old items are discontinued often. If we want to do a comparison with IV for any ol...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Delivered

automate updating of DB password in CCM

Passwords are periodically rotated and we want to avoid any issues during the manual update and automate the task. We have the script available in ../utils/runConfigCCSample.sh, but its updating all configuration parameters. We need to alter the s...

Include active MAXUSERS in high water mark SMF record

Highwater mark SMF record should include Active MAXUSERS to have full pictures of how region is performing. We've experienced BTL issues relating to high MAXUSERS counts and we don't have accurate insight into how many users are active at that time.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Request enhancement to failover characteristic for B2B Integrator/SFG

We would like to request an enhancement of the failover characteristic of the product. During functional testing we have observed delays of up to an hour in re-establishing normal operations of the UI and scheduler in the surviving nodes. The test...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Delivered

Increase the size of Default_config.json in CDFA 6.3

have observed in the wild (namely, banking sector customer support scenario), that when the default_config.json is larger than 1MB, integrated FA fails to either import the new configuration, save new config or reopen the configuration for editing...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Delivered

Support myfilegateway rebranding to work at Certified Containers on OpenShift

There are some documentation on how to rebrand and or customizing FileGateway and MyFilegateway, however they will not work at all on Certified Containers on OpenShift.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

mailbox messageid and PrimaryDocument at AWS S3 custom protocol

During AWS S3 custom protocol, at delivery side (consumer) AWSS3 client service is not getting primary document. to provide primary document to AWS S3 service, we need to define logic like below <assign to="PrimaryDocument" from="/ProcessData/P...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 0 Delivered

Improve diagnostic accuracy of Secure+ error messages

We often get Secure+ error messages (prefix CSPA) that don’t necessarily indicate a Secure+ issue. This makes it difficult to monitor for errors. The error messages that have caused us the most difficulty are: CSPA202E SSL handshake failure, re...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

SSH User Identity Key > 2,048 bit

Partner ask to generate a auth key of 4,096-bit or larger, however Sterling menu doesn't allow for any key size except 1,024, 1,536 or 2,048. Also, there does not appear to be a documented and supported method to generate a key pair using a comman...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered