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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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Associate CLA2 adapter to specific application node.

It would be helpful to have the command line adapter be assigned to a specific node in a cluster environment like the file system adapters or most of the other adapters are associated to a specific node. This would prevent if a node wasn't running...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Delivered

ITX should allow the functional map to be opened in the new window.

Right now, while doing mapping in ITXA, if we want to move from one functional map to another or to the main map or vice-versa. The new maps always open in the same window which makes it quite difficult to work with the mapping. especially when we...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Delivered

ITX Design Studio should have an option to allow users to search based on FUNCTION name or what function does just like what we have in SI Mapper.

Right now, while doing the mapping in ITXA, we need to search the function manually and only by name. There is no search bar or anything which allows us to search based on the FUNCTION name or what FUNCTION does in ITXA. Add a search bar just in S...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Delivered

Create a feature in CCD to Create / renewal a Connect Direct Certificate

The current process is to use openssl/ikeyman tools to create Cert request. This cert request get uploaded to CA to receive a signed certificate. This signed certificated is downloaded and a keystore is created. This keystore is then uploaded to C...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Delivered

Create a back out process for CD Windows patching

The current version of CD patching via CCD does not have a process to back out the patch incase of issues. The ask is to create a backout process and trigger it via CCD console if need be.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 3 Delivered

ITX ActiveMQ Adapter needs the capability to use JMS Headers for both sending and receiving ActiveMQ messages

☐ Need a method to specify JMS Headers sent or included with the ActiveMQ message. ☐ Need a method to parse JMS Header received with the ActiveMQ message.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Delivered

Provide Usermod or disable DGAXTABL by default

After installing PTFs UI91208, UI90597 we began having failures with transmissions which we later identified as DGAXTABL being introduced. PTF UI91208 had no hold information about updating DGAXTABL exit requirement whatsoever, and UI90597 had an ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Supported encryption keys - ssh-ed25519

My customer will need to integrate with 80 other banks via SFTP, but one of the types of Hostkey that other bank's uses isto ed25519, but B2B does not support it. This ed25519 key will soon be used a lotthis key is becoming common. I tried it thro...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Delivered

Attachment sorting in form view from latest to earliest

In form view of items, newly added attachments are listed to the bottom of the existing list. Hence if we need to refer the related attachment to the latest workflow, needs to scroll down to the bottom. It is suggested to place the latest attachme...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

null from JSON messages must not be treated as string "null"

When customer sends null for mandatory fields in a JSON message, this must be treated as empty field instead of string "null"
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Delivered