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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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Partner invitation should identify the duplicates and warn the sponsor.

PEM should throw an warning saying that the user is already registered or Invitation sent to partner as soon as sponsor clicks on Invite button and the a partner is registered with that Email Id already. This avoid sending the duplicate invites to...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Support a context specific CSS file to control the look and feel of UI dialog components

Add the ability for there to be a PEM context specific CSS file which could be updated by Sponsor Admins and would control the look and feel of UI dialog components within activities. This would require that the dialog components support the abili...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Provide housekeeping in PEM to clean up objects no longer needed

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

I would like to see control center monitor use active directory as an authenticator vs just SQL authentication when connecting to a MSSQL database

For security reasons we don't use SQL Authentication for local accounts. We use domain service accounts. We would like to see the CC adopt this option for authentication.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Hooks to enable the SSO Authentication for SSPDashboard URL

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Not under consideration

Please create a work queue under 9 "QR" for "Quote Review"

As the Inventory get a quote we can add it to the work queue QR, It will enabale plant to prioritise their Plant reviews for quotes.
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Include a field on each material to display the highest Business Impact and Moving Code value from any other plant in the business. MAke the field visible in grid view and reports.

When managing inventory at large multi site site operations - this will allow the materials to be consilidated at a central hub. The highest moving, or highest criticality site could be the holding location for any given material, allowing the inv...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters

Encrypted Access Key and Secret Key in # S3 IO Exit parameters Stanza of Initparm.cfg file. Here is problem Statement : We were able to send the file to DELL ECS S3 Bucket from linux node, for this one we have updated the initparm.cfg file, We hav...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration