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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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We request product support for C: D on IBM i on PowerVS.

We are seriously considering running IBM i on IBM cloud, and the lack of product support for C:D running on IBM i on PowerVS become a major barrier. I think that the behavior of IBM i on PowerVS is the same as physical server, so please support C...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Functionality already exists

Order Management on Cloud (OMoC) Data Access 

The Development team and Business Operations team relies heavily on ad hoc data analysis and were expecting to be able to query the OMoC data directly using tools such as Toad, SQL Developer, etc. However, IBM does not allow external database conn...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

User Accounts with limited access control to Sterling File Gateway components

Sterling B2B Integrator should provide options to create & assign DENY permissions to Sterling File Gateway components. At present Sterling file gateway does not have the options to create permissions for specific components. We'll have to use...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Functionality already exists

Show source IP and user in log for ALL attempts

It is useful to scan logs with security tools to look for patterns in brute force access to the B2B Integrator instance. None of the logs today contain the real source IP of connection attempts. Only certain logs show the perimeter server IP the r...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

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...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

DEVOPS deployment to LINUX servers

Devops has been around for a while, with automated testing and deployment. WTX should provide tool to auto deploy (similar to map build). This would take the PC tested map and allow it to be deployed to a server for further testing in a LINUX envi...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Registration link to close after registering

After registration the link is not closing. Instead it times out and confusing people since the page is still opened.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to Pause and Un-Pause CD nodes in SCC using runbatch or API

Sterling Control Center should have an sbility to Pause and Un-Pause Connect Direct nodes in SCC using runbatch script and/or using API
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Functionality already exists

Email/Alerting Notifications After CCD Jobs

Looking to have an email notifications and address(es) added as a configurable job field, which would be leveraged to send results automatically (if populated with an email address) after job execution. Email should include job status results (suc...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

Wild Card Searches in Call Center

In the Call Center UI, we'd like to be able to complete wild card searches for many or all of the fields. For example, if I wanted to search for all orders that are from an IBM email address I could search *IBM.com. This would bring up all orders ...
12 months ago in OMS - Call Center 9 Functionality already exists