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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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Monitored File Agents - Notification needed for "error in container"

The File Agent CDFA.log reports "error in container" messages in the log. We would like an associated message ID to be assigned to this so that a Control Center email notification can be set up. This will help our team clean up various File Agents...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Strip LDAP syntax from SEAS return data and return just the values

PEM/PCM requires each user to have a “role”. When LDAP is integrated with PCM, the “role” is obtained as a mapping from an LDAP attribute value. Enterprise customers with an enterprise Microsoft Active Directory schema can be constrained from usin...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Under review

Reuqest to have Connect Direct Windows support a Database AG Cluster and multisubnetfailover=true

We have created a Database AG for our Connect Direct Windows instance and would like it to support a failover from one data center to the other so we would like to see support for Connect DIrect Windows connecting to a Database Cluster and multisu...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Analytics report that provides live information on the changes made by users.

Management would like to see how may items are reviewed/exported/changed by users. This could be listed on the item grid so it's included in the item export.
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to import / update XSLTs from the command line to allow better automated deployments

We have many XSLT sheets in the B2B Integrator, but would like to have the source control of these XSLTs externalised from Sterling B2B Integrator and allow deployment via our automated deployment pipelines. Currently there is no ability to import...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

FileAgent become another user

Allow File Agent user to become another account as specific folders are owned by different accounts. A little history, we were using some product to monitor files for different directories, the product allowed us to become another user to pick up ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Enable Stop Deployment option

There are occasions where we accidentally click on deploy button and there is no way we can stop the deployment. Can the product atleast ask for a confirmation before initiating the process? or lets have a stop deployment option in the lower envir...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

When Events are producing using Kafka adapter need acknowledgement as response.

When Events are produced using Kafka adapter needs acknowledgement like the respective offset number and partition number in Kafka broker.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release

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

User should be able to use variable in Send email >To field under the action.

Currently, we are only able to provide mail ids only when we create the action in Control Center Monitor. IN our project, we are using meta data and we want to use the meta data variable in Send email so that as per server, email should get to own...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release