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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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Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

More Robust Search Options in SCC web client

In the Sterling Control Center Web Client, under the Monitor, Completed File Transfers screen... We would like to see more robust search criteria. Currently it is allowing us to search based on data, server, filename and status. Our biggest use of...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

MQ notifications on CX

When notifications are sent using HTTP, as you only have one HTTP server to send the notification you cannot do any load balancing between multiple nodes. If HTTP server answers too slowly due to a large load, HTTP response code can be sent before...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Enhance PGP failure report on Inflight

In case of any PGP encryption or decryption errors, Currently, we are seeing zero byte output in case of PGP issues and failing at subsequent translation steps. But errored report is not indicating about issues in the PGP step. This request is to ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Compliance check map name visibility issue on Inflight for envelopes with no translation

Below envelope is configured with no map/no translation at ST envelope but still we are getting map name on Inflight, Please correct ELUX_CITIBANKCAN-ED1_004203642_X12_ST_823 Please check screenshots from Inflight and Config Center
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Enable feature to export only selected entries from the Inflight search results

Currently, Inflight export option exports all search results and there is no option to export only selected entries from search results. Request is to enable feature to export only selected entries from search results.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

EDIFACT versions are not available

We are not able to below EDIFACT versions in Sterling Integrator Map editor. We have downloaded standards from 6.1.2.3 but not coming in map editor. Could you please check and advise. ATHSTS:D:10A SSDCLM:D:10A SSDRSP:D:10A Please refer PMR for ref...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.

Request Connect:Direct to support file path / file name that includes double byte characters.Since we need get the file with Simplified Chinese path and name from headquarter frequently.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration