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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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security JDK modification to allow addition of ciphers for SI connecting to ldap

At the moment SI product wont allow it and for SDS (ldap) product remediation more strong ciphers has to be added with guidelines from CSO so intention was matching to all those ciphers on SI side. This would benefit everyone to matchup with secur...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Need a list of schedule timing for all active scheduled Business Process

We need a list of reporting consist of exact schedule for all active Business Process Schedule, currently need to look one by one, we have about 3000 Business Process therefore its hard to kept at looking one by one BP schedule for manageability
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Adding new indexes to database for enhancing performance.

The current DB settings seems to be insufficient for production environment. The performance dramatically enhanced after adding them during DB analysis made by our DBA team. I have raised TS001613070, and IBM Support agreed to add these indexes bu...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Future consideration

introduction of query parameter or new function for exact match search

when we try to find a specific user credential using its name and the partner it belongs to , the API performas a like search and returning multiple matches. Looks like, for the profileConfigName query parameter, this API is deviating from the sta...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Script to suppress the alerts during/after the maintenance hours

We CCM running on our environment and monitoring SFG/B2Bi/SEAS/CD components. During weekend maintenance/Disaster recovery Test we need to suppress/clear the alerts in CCM Panel manually. It will be easy if we can schedule a job run a script to cl...

Allow Override of STOP CD QUIESCE for C:D z/OS

When a Connect:Direct region is shut down with a STOP CD QUIESCE, the region will terminate when all processes stop, making it an ideal choice for a planned shutdown. However, once initiated, this cannot be aborted or converted to a quicker type o...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1

Select multiple trust cert with search functionality

In SSP Dashboard, Netmap > Inbound Node[HTTP based protocol] > Security>CA Certificates/Trusted Root While selecting multiple certificates it becomes very difficult to select multiple cert and find to unselect certificate. It would be con...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release