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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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com.ibm.cc.i18n.Messages. prefixes in rule create request email to admin should be removed.

email format is not good. It has lot of com.ibm.cc.i18n.Messages. prefixes in the email.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Add compression factor information to Queue Activity Monitor and to Connect Direct Process Details Report

Instead of logging onto the actual Connect Direct server to see the compression factor of a process that is transmitting, it would be nice if this information was displayed in the Queued Activity Monitor. It would be also good to add this informat...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Create Locally Authenticated Admin User via Command Line

In the event that our LDAP authentication fails for whatever reason is there any way via the command line to create a locally authenticated admin account so that we could logged back into the application GUI?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SCC file transfer report for AS2 is having mismatches with AS2 transactions counts with SI B2Bi

The SCC default “Sterling B2B Integrator File Transfer Report” doesn't providing any file transfer report when selected 'AS2' as protocol. We are getting some data when specified adapter as 'AS2'. However, the report fetched from SCC 6.0 doesn't m...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

SPE Envelope support for multiple ST/SE loops for non XMl files using the SPE.encode API

SPE.encode() translates a document and wraps the X12 output in ST/SE, GS/GE, and ISA segments. This means that to be compliant the translated output must fit within a single transaction set and a single functional group,which does not follow the H...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Add RND Standard to SPE

Rede Nacional de Dados (RND), the Brazilian automotive standard (which consists of automobile manufacturers and their development partners, the suppliers, and the manufacturers of trailers, body superstructures, and containers)
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add CII Standard to SPE

The CII standard is the EDI standard developed by the Center for the Informatization of Industry in 1991 for use in all industries in Japan as an expanded and reformed standard of the EIAJ standard, which was designed exclusively for electronic in...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Need Gentran 5.3.1.4 to support Oracle Database 12C

System: Gentran 5.3.1 (patch level 4)Actor: Oracle database All of the Oracle databases in our organization are being upgraded to Oracle 12C. Gentran 5.3.1 does not support Oracle 12C. In order to stay current and allow our DBAs and support teams ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Gentran Basic / Enhancement request

We were wondering if there is not a way to do so, if Gentran support can create an enhancement request for outbound mapping to convert binary fields used in the User Ref to numeric display.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

CommPost - Error Opening File

From a scheduled event in the Server Process Control after GDW_MBProcess_File runs and CommPost starts if certain dll's required for the process are not registered the translation fails BUT no error is reported in the AuditLog. When CommPost is in...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Future consideration