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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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SPE Codelist enhancement

RFE requirement for SPE Codelist enhancement Problem Statement – We are replacing xref files with ITXA code list so that the WTX map could use code list to perform mapping logic Description –ITX maps in ABC environment currently uses xref file...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add new packages to ITX docker images

Request to install the following packages as part of ITX docker images 1) install gawk.2) install realpath
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Not under consideration

enhance ITX plugin for IIB

the ITX plugin in IIB works very well. However, it is not possible to update the audit and trace settings on the fly and can only be done by deploying a new map with the updated settings.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 1 Not under consideration

Connection manager changes

Currently the connection manager is single threaded over the entire launcher or on an execution group in message broker. one bad server slows everything down as a result. it would be better to make it single threaded over a particular hostname
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Not under consideration

Simplification of mapping partitioned type

Mapping a partitioned type or its partition does not give the same result, data can be lost when partition has release character as shown in the code sample attached.Actually mapping the partitioned type does not mean "map the partition that was i...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Limit Secure Proxy sessions by inbound IP address

We want the ability to limit inbound sessions per IP address at the adapter level. We don't want to maintain inbound IP addresses in SSP but we would like SSP to be intelligent enough to realize when an external inbound IP is consuming X number of...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 6 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...
over 6 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.
over 6 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 ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Not under consideration