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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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No Limit of No of tasks for a cycle count request

We perform cycle count based on store requirement, But we were informed in case(TS015284661) that there is cap limit of 1000 tasks generation in a single cycle count request and also countRequestCompleted pubsub event was not published for the tas...
9 months ago in Store Engagement / Other 1 Not under consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Application Console in other browsers than IE

Would it be possible to redesign Application Console so it is not required to use IE or Edge in IE compatibility? It would be nice to have it independent on browser
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Support HP-UX B.11.31 for SSP 6.1

Could you please provide support for SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31? A customer in the financial industry needs us to support SSP 6.1 on HP-UX B.11.31 because HPE offers the extended support for B.11.31 until Dec 2028. https://www.hpe.com/jp/ja/servers/...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Enable CCD to deploy patches in Iseries and Tandem estate

We have a significant tandem and iseries estate in the organisation. Following a CCD process to upgrade a patching on these platforms will create a standard CD patching across the estate.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Handling XML data Using WTX map

We have a WTX translation map from xml to Legacy format. The source xml type tree has been created with the XSD schema. Currently the map was working fine with the xml data because it is matching with type tree structure. However the client is say...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

A script to identify & package a Launcher/CS/API core and dependant libraries, allowing for remote core analysis on Linux

In order to analyse a Linux core file on IBM lab machines, we need to gather & package all shared libs (included OS) from the system. A script that finds out all loaded DLLs from the core and packages them is needed. We don't have such a scrip...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Provide visibility of log info within SSP UI for troubleshooting of connectivity or authentication issues

Troubleshooting external trading partner connectivity issues requires accessing the SB2BI servers and searching multiple log files. This is extremely cumbersome as well as requiring production support resources to have access to the server, which ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Not under consideration