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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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Generate statistics in CD z/OS when a node is not defined in the netmap

Connect:Direct z/OS can reject any incoming connection request which is not defined to the C:D NETMAP when parameter NETMAP.CHECK is set to ALL,ALL,FAIL and TCP,ALL,FAIL. Have Connect:Direct z/OS generated statistical records that IBM Sterling Con...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1

Add Columns to the User and Roles section.

I would like to be able to see the User Description when I am looking at the User and Roles section. In our shop, we use the User Description for enter the person's name. This can be much different when compared to their userid. Adding the User De...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Enhance ITX importer for ddf

Enhacning the ITX imorter to be able to generate type tree from ddf or native usage of ddf would be an useful advantage. Many a times migrating from Sterling mapper to ITX is not straight forward when there is no industry standard being used.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Not under consideration

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

collect ebics client messages from B2BI as a standard protocol

Today only Ebics server messages are collected by ICC. for EBICs client, nothing gets to ICC, and therefore ICC is not supervising and monitoring all standard B2Bi protocols. This has a huge impact as we can't use ICC as a central monitoring solut...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Red Hat Linux clustering/HA support

A number of clients ask about about HA solutions and clustering support for Connect:Direct with Red Hat Linux. I've had a search around, but only found the usual (old) docs on HA support with AIX/Solaris/HP-UX/Windows. I was trying to find somethi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Web Console must filter prior to displaying the stats

Every time I select statistics usinig Web Console, ICC does an initial search with no criteria and it takes more than minutes. After this initial search I can include criteria and make a new search. This approach makes a simple selection of statis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Planned for future release

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Implement SelectMethod attribute for all OMS ListAPI

Suggest to include the SelectMethod handling as the standard attribute for all List APIs.
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Order hub permission to incldue options to controll node turn on/off and change capacity actions based on node type

The client wants to have the abiity to enable and disable stores for certain users but the same set of user should not have the ability to see turn off DCs. Similarly there should be ability to change the node capacity for certain users only for s...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration