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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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Ability to allow Control Center Director to update C:D / File Agent passwords

Many companies, especially financial institutions, have corporate security policies that require all application passwords be updated on a regular basis. In order to do this with the Connect:Direct (C:D) application, a human has to log in to the n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Pause Monitored File Agents when Monitored CD server is paused

Currently when a CD server is paused and if the File Agent has been stopped, the File Agent shows a down status. When a server is paused, the associated File Agents should be paused as well.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

RPM for automated installation

We need a RPM installation package for Connect:Direct to simple deploy in our Cloud enviroment. The RPM must inform all dependencies for a automated instalation process (like Puppet).
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Remove limitation to not install in C:\Program Files

As per the release notes: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6362027 It is mentioned not to specify C:\Program Files as the install directory. It is requested if you could remove those compatibility issues
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 3 Not under consideration

Setting date parameter in the filename

My company send hundreds of reports to our customers on a daily basis. When trying to schedule this within ConnectDirect we found we were unable to set the filename mask to use a date other then today. All of our reports are dated yesterday, as th...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Add Dev Toolkit version check & download for SST Command Line Tools

Add a method / option to the command line tool to pull the dev toolkit version for latest (overall) or for a particular environment -- and show a version string. As a bonus, add a method / option to download the latest dev toolkit version. For bon...
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

PEM should have an option of Copy-&-Paste the already created API boxes, XSLT boxes and Dialog boxes.

Currently, if we want to create same API dialog box twice then we have to create that from the scratch i.e., entering the same URL, Location, Calls etc. and this creates a big issue when we have to do the same API calls with extremely minute to no...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Multiple work orders allowed for a single order line

For any retail client working on any customization of products, they use work order concept to provide delivery or provided service. For an order with multiple quantities in a single order line, there are multiple valid cases, where a single work ...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists