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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...
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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...
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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

CDW services should be running as non-system and non-admin user account

Our security assessment team found an issue with 'System' running CDW services by default. Although IBM allows a service account to run CDW services, it requires this account to be a member of local admin group. Either method causes security conce...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Not under consideration

Alt Comm outbound Retry feature

When failing to connect to primary host/ip, system uses alt com outbound to try alternate addresses. Should none of them work, system goes in retry state ONLY retrying with last hostIP in alt com outbound. This causes some retries to get stuck as ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Not under consideration

Certificate tracking in Secure+

Request that statistics capture serial numbers of SSL certificates exchanged during CD secure+ file transfers between pnode and snode. Serial numbers should be visible in select statistics and CD Requester.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct netmap may contain only 3 addresses on HP Nonstop

Hello, Today on unix, mainframe or windows the number of alternate ip addresses that we may enter in a netmap definition is unlimited. On HP Nonstop (not HP-UX), we are limited to 3 hostnames or ip addresses (the documentation says: IPADDR=ip.addr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Adding support for Pipes to Connect:Direct by z/OS

Adding support for Pipes on Connect:Direct for z/OS can help to speed up the overal file transfer process for distributing dat towards distributed platforms.Analogy to functionality already available in C:D for Unix.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Sponsor announcement message on partner home page

Ability for sponsor to add a welcome message pop-up on the home page once a partner logs in
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Copy/paste Dialog Objects

Allow items to be copy and pasted within a page. Item property ‰ÛÏname‰Û should then be Copy, Copy 2, etc.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Increase Width Limit of Dialogs

Currently there is a maximum width of 1000 px. We would like to request a wider dialog size option. This would help to fit information nicely on the screen and reduce number of screens.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Test Mode for Context Data

Since context data has been added to PEM we have created a second activity for transmitters who need the same activity rolled out to them multiple times. The issue with the second activity is that all APIs with the reference to context data automa...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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