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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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Control Center 6.0 Reports Enhancement

Please add the ability to save a report before actually running it. Now with the introduction of Cognos, it takes a considerable amount of time to run reports. When a user is trying to create a new report, version 6.0 forces the user to run the re...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

User management between SCC and Cognos

As of today, the user management for Cognos is done through a java security call to SCC, that provides dummy user/password to be able to run report. We do not have the possibility to create users in SCC that can connect to the cognos dispatcher, a...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

SCC - getting transfer statistics through REST calls

Today, it is possible since 5.4.x version to use REST api to request information from SCC.We lack a request to get the statistics details of a transfer based on its process id for example.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

Enhance SLC Recovery when CC Engine is back up

I just recently learned this from pmr 93249,442,000. If Control Center is shutdown and then bring it back up it will not go check on a SLC that should have started prior to coming back up. This is an issue. There may have been something important ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enabling support for FF0D in ITX for ibm-930 code page

When we receive FF0D character in request to Datapower service, ITX map is unable to handle in ibm-930 code page. Can you please enhance ibm-930 code page to handle FF0D character in ITX maps.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Adding "Dictionary password checker" for password

Prevent clients from using common word for password.. e.g. password
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Read-Only Text Box (or make Text Area height match text boxes)

Currently only Text Areas can be read-only, but the smallest height for text areas is larger than the height of text boxes, so it looks terrible. Either text boxes need to be able to have read-only, or the text area minimum height needs to match.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Exit Validation on File Uploads

We would like to be able to have exit validation to check if a file upload has been attached, as well as to check file types.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Disable some automated e-mails

Sponsor should have the option to disable specific automated e-mails if desired
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

codepage translation tracing

Current versions of CDU and CDZ do not track calls to iconv for codepage translation in submitted process, even with max trace level 4. We need to see calls to iconv along with parameters.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration