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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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Need to have an override property file to prevent wipe of customized settings

With higher volume customers it is common to require customization to property files, especially engine.properties and Engine.log4j. However, with application of an iFix or FixPack (or upgrade), there is a risk that these settings will be lost. B2...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

API response status of eInvoice in Peppol

Currently, if there is an error while sending eInvoices, SCBN will send a notification email to the main partner. The partner has to manually update the status of the eInvoice or inform the customer on the status via offline means such as a phone ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

Native Variables in Connect:Direct Unix

We currently use some of the native Connect variables in: Windows for Windows, Windows for Mainframe, and Windows for UNIX. However, we need to use these same variables from a UNIX server and we are having problems. Examples:% SUBDATE1 and% SUBTIM...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the forward proxy

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 4 Future consideration

Enhancement to add automatic failover from an active CM node to another

Currently, we have CM installed on 4 servers and the configs are written to the local drive. If something were to fail on the active node, there is a manual fail-over process to not only copy the configs to another node (might not be possible if i...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Future consideration

Inactivity user account control

Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Sterling Web Store iOS App - Icons Too Small

In Sterling Web Store Engagement Application iOS version , we found one usability issue as the iPod screen is very small. In web store, we have buttons, numbers, and link for store operations (user has to touch). In Ulta, as we are using iPods whe...
about 6 years ago in Store Engagement 0 Future consideration

RTAM - Cannot run RTAM in multi threaded mode

Refer this PMR - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001FdfZAAAZ/service-to-execute-on-completion-of-work-in-agent-runtime-properties-does-not-work-in-multi-threaded-mode Let me consider a scenario here Total Records - 13000 Max Record ...
about 6 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Purging notification records at run-time

With current Windows Connect:Express versions, when notifications are enabled, notification records are added at run-time in the local database, even when they are fully processed (notifications messages sent), and they remain there, possibly very...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration