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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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Location and use of CPIO file on Unix for CCD upgrades.

We are looking to have the automatic download location of the CPIO files used by the CDU upgrades to be a selectable location or a field that we can populate in the job configuration. By default, (and we're not able to adjust) it is <installati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Planned for future release

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem. cert auth is only available in unix and windows version. Our orgs have a large tandem nodes that are critical to organisation.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Standardize SFTP/FTP Server and client logs for external dashboard consumption like ELK

We are using the SFTP / FTP server and client logs to monitor user activity via Dashboard. We want to provide communication level visibility to our business users from our enterprise application that stores all our B2B data. Its very difficult to ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page

Lot's of remote profiles causing the UI page to crash on SFG Consumer - SFTP profile selection page, should have a property to control the no.of profiles displayed on the sftp profile selection page.. IBM Case# TS009761621
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

support SSL for HTTP notification

Currently the production offer a functionnality to generate http notification about transfert event (file sended, file receipted - start/end). The XML notification is pushed to an URL using the HTTP protocol. The message only push metadata of the ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 1 Planned for future release

Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action

The Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action to perform user customized actions like Rest API to push the partner details to customer LDAP or customer custom tables for auditing or other purposes. As SSO implementation is getting int...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

API for Group management

There is currently no API to create or manage Groups. There should be capability to: Create Group Edit Group (Name, Description) Assign/Unassign Attribute Values
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Request for New filter options in Inflight for communication type and pod

In the search for document option. Could you add the communication type to the search ? Like AS2, SFTP, Van or FTP. It would also be VERY useful if you could add the option to select a POD like POD41 and only see those that go thru that POD. When ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Improve Transfer Speed between CDU on EC2 instance and S3

We are in the testing staging of using CDU to download file from S3 and push to some other CD Node. However, after we perform testing a large file (GB), we found that the transfer speed is almost three time slower than AWS S3 CP command. We have...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Planned for future release