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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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DFDL support in ITX

The use of DFDL for data format definition is getting popular especially in IBM products. Please add DFDL into ITX as a standard
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 0 Not under consideration

A new WARN() function, which would work similar to FAIL()

I propose a new function WARN(), which would work in a similar way to FAIL() and end the map with a specific warning code.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

SPE Codelist- Data Harness New Feature.(Multiple Search and retrieval)

Hi Team, I have raised on a PMR 38895,082,000 on SPE Codelist and my understanding on that PMR was as follows. 1. We can only search a SPE codelist using SenderCode or ReceiverCode only (not with Codelistitem Colomns)using below adapter. a) getCod...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Extract all Sheets(tabs) from Microsoft Excel into 1 csv file with sheet(tab) spacers

Is there a way in which I could read the whole workbook that would includeall the sheets (tabs) at once, instead of creating multiple cards or calls issuing the PARSE(GET("EXCEL", "-W 'Tab 1' -T", ExcelIn)) changing the sheet name. Is there a wild...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

certificate policy validation in ITX

Strict SSL certificate policy enforcement in ITXv9.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

SPE deenveloping service corrects automatically output BAD_GROUP link

When SE01 contains an incorrect segment count, the SPE deenveloping service fails with transaction non-compliant but the output BAD_GROUP is actually corrected data. Why and how it is corrected. If the input data is bad , we donot expect it to be ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Connection manager changes

Currently the connection manager is single threaded over the entire launcher or on an execution group in message broker. one bad server slows everything down as a result. it would be better to make it single threaded over a particular hostname
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Simplification of mapping partitioned type

Mapping a partitioned type or its partition does not give the same result, data can be lost when partition has release character as shown in the code sample attached.Actually mapping the partitioned type does not mean "map the partition that was i...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

SSP CD node configuration allow selection of multiple secure protocols to allow upshifting like CD for migration efforts

The CD node entry in an SSP netmap does not permit selecting multiple protocols in the Secure+ panel. This inhibits SSP from negotiating properly with CDs where more than one protocol is selected.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration