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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...
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...

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IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

API Endpoint for Document Envelopes

We are currently querying the SI tables directly to get data related to trading partner document envelopes. We prefer to use API endpoints to query data from our management tools.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Favorites Administration Menu

There are dozens of items on the Administration Menu, and I only use a fraction of them. Please allow users to mark, manage, and organize which pages of the Administration Menu they would like to be bookmarked. This list of favorite bookmarks can ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

security JDK modification to allow addition of ciphers for SI connecting to ldap

At the moment SI product wont allow it and for SDS (ldap) product remediation more strong ciphers has to be added with guidelines from CSO so intention was matching to all those ciphers on SI side. This would benefit everyone to matchup with secur...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Allow Override of STOP CD QUIESCE for C:D z/OS

When a Connect:Direct region is shut down with a STOP CD QUIESCE, the region will terminate when all processes stop, making it an ideal choice for a planned shutdown. However, once initiated, this cannot be aborted or converted to a quicker type o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Under the equipment tab, we would like to be able to open an individual equipment and see all material spares consumed/on a BoM for that equipment.

From the equipment tab, we would like to be able to click on a piece of equipment and immediately see all the materials that are linked to and/or have been consumed by that equipment and be able to navigate to those materials in the tool.
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Node Availability API to support Node Transfer

Adding support for node transfer in IV will allow a retailer who does not have SIP whom is currently supporting click and collect just from store stock to easily transition to supporting DC to Store transfer as well as Store to Store transfer when...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration