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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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Add slc notes to be displayed as part of an SLC alert

A note section was added to Control Center slc's as part of an enhancement request. This is very useful and beneficial to the team that is responsible for monitoring Control Center alerts. However, the team is asking if the notes could be part of ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Future consideration

Workflow tab set to “Awaiting my attention” as a default for all users as first priority. If not, for Read only users at least.

Currently when we select the Workflow tab, MRO IO application is set to show "My outstanding Workflows" by default Since many of our high end approvers are not regular users they are getting confused and require guidance on how to get into their l...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Protocol Profile ID in receive step

For Outbound files we display PPID in delivey step, bt for Inbound or Outbound files we do not display PPID in inflight steps. For example, for any Inbound file in receive step we can see communication details, the attached screenshot shows AS2_me...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

json sterling mapper

Not able to do EDI into JSON or JSON to JSON for any new tech modernization
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

ICC Ability To Monitor Cassandra, Zookeeper, Reaper, MQ for Global Mailbox

If we could see application statuses within ICC like we do for Secure Proxy & Global Mailbox (SFG/GM) applications, it would be much easier to troubleshoot issues. ICC should be a true monitoring tool for Global Mailbox, which would include di...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Future consideration

Automated way to copy exported SSL conf file from CM to Engine

We use a common SSL certificate for the CM, engine and Jetty web server communications. We export the SSL certificate store file from the CM (via ./configureCmSsl.sh -e file=<export file>) and store that in a location on the server the CM ru...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Please put an enhancement for IBM Control Center Monitor to pull through Java logs that are recorded in logfiles for B2BI and CD onto the ICCM Dashboard for more transparency of logfiles that these applications are encountering

A client requested for this enhancement before they can purchase the IBM Control Center.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

OMS Call Center - Have the user's enterprise default to their locale

Hi there, User's Enterprise Defaulting to Their Locale At Brooks Running and I'm sure many other companies, manual created and systematically created records could be tied to one of multiple different enterprise options. Currently in Brooks' insta...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 6 Future consideration

SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requirement...
over 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for HPE Nonstop Platform

It was mentioned in HPE NonStop Forum that TLSv1.3 will be coming out later 2019 year. It was also mentioned by HPE that TLSv1.0 is a degraded security protocol and that HPE NonStop Client Applications running on X86 and Itanium Platform need to m...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 6 Future consideration