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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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Refresh all configurations of managed servers on Control Center

Currently, you can have Control Center check for configuration changes daily at a specific time. However, if an authorized user is making multiple configuration changes to multiple servers, they may want to be able to refresh all of the configurat...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Let Control Center have the ability to monitor critical database system events on a monitored SI server

Today, if a B2BI node looses its connection to the database server, it sends out an email. I would like Control Center to have the ability to detect if that event has occurred and send out an alert.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 3 Future consideration

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for Control Center

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSP, and Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SSP

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSP, and Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SEAS

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSPcm, Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Possibility of deleting large number of alerts on IBM Control Center

We didn't use IBM Control Center for a while and now we have thousands of alerts to handle. The problem is we only can handle alerts 10 by 10. With this fonctionality, we can handle large number of requests (due to inactivity, IT problem, ...)
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

Product Lines with Special services associated

in Call center we don't see any way to Add special service to a product which is already associated with a special service. For web (commerce) orders , we were able to create order with product and special services(createOrder API). Special servic...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Call Center 0 Future consideration

BKFS - SSP Account Unlock

Ability to unlock SFTP accounts through the GUI for SSP
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration