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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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Provide graphical mapping tool for Gentran

Create a visual mapping tool for the Gentran product to provide ease of use features for mapping tasks.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Support for AIX 7.2 for Gentran Server for Unix

Gentran Server for Unix 6.2 needs to be certified to run on AIX 7.2
about 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

Extended Rule - GOTO and Call Features

Hello, Gentran Server for Windows is great, but we need a few new tools for the extended rules. 1- We need a GOTO statement. 2- We need to be able to call a saved rule from within an extended rule. Sure, we can copy paste the same code in each map...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring

Request to allow single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring
about 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

SSP User ID based routing in clustered environment

They are detailed in the attached document
about 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Linux systemd IBM Control Center auto boot system unit file

Develop and test example IBM Control Center linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Template for Holiday Schedule

Please add a feature to allow for exclusion template we can apply to all SLC instead of having to go into each SLC and select the exclusions.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Sterling Control Center Having an alert on unhandled alerts

Can Control Center generate an alert if a previous alert is not marked as handled if x amount of time has expired?
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Not under consideration

More than one external authentication setup within Control Center

Within SEAS you can specify multiple authentication definitions that can contain different attribute query definitions however within control center you can only setup one external authentication server.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Duration Schedule SLC-Generated Message -CSLC043E does not contain detailed information

We have designed one Work flow SLC with Metadata Rule and actions to work on events posted by ITXA. There is also one rule created based on message id: CSLC043E , Event Type: SLC Notification to trigger an alert if Workflow/Milestone/Step/Process ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration