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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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Maintain item search details and context over the different selections in BUC

It would help productivity in BUC if the item search feature remembered the selections previously made. There is the breadcrumb offering some persistence, but if the user jumps to Orders or anywhere else, all the item search selections are cleared...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for i5/OS( IBM i)

Security enhancement request to support IBMi 7.4 OS with TLS1.3
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 2 Delivered

Enhance C:D to provide better support for zEDC datasets

We are implementing zEDC across our production environment and are trying to avoid mass updates to all of our C:D processes. We would like to be able to transmit a zEDC dataset without having to update hundreds of existing processes. Here is th...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

Introduce SASL Support in B2Bi

Integration use case with ITX and the Kafka adapter. Confulence is pushing SASL Support. SASL provides higher level security options to our customers
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Add appl.id & policy.id PasswordExit parameters to Functional Authorities

Currently Password Exit feature for Connect Direct for Windows allows to specify "passwrod.exit.appl.id" & "password.exit.policy.id" only in the "Initparms" section. The aim is to add more granularity to the configuration and provide an option...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Cooperative Listener directory permissions

When Launcher starts in cooperative listener mode on RHEL servers a hidden directory is created under each watch point. That dir is named .WTX_<pid>_<hostname>. Each coop listener will have its own one of these hidden dirs. The dirs ar...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

New function 'QUIT()' to stop a map at a specific point

The client has requested a new function (perhaps called "QUIT()") which will stop the map at that point as FAIL() currently does, but with a non fail exit code (maybe a new warning code instead).
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

Deny Access/Blacklist for common ID's

Add ability to create and utilize a blacklist in order to quickly block common used id's in penetration scans. While the ID's are not used and access is denied, the login attempts still go through the full authentication attempts which generate ov...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 6 Delivered

Sterling Control Center Monitoring - SFG Reporting

This functionality add a great value to the product itself and also to BNYM. While opening the RFE you may add the additional scenario such as filtering the FG events...if customer does not want some of the OOB FG events then product should provid...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Change password capability at ICC web UI

Our banking client in Middle East requests that an non-admin user should be able to change his/her own password at web UI. You can do this via thick client however client wants to have that capability at web UI since it is the roadmap of ICC and m...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered