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Refresh all configurations of managed servers on Control Center

Currently, you can have Control Center check for configuration changes daily at a specific time. However, if an authorized user is making multiple configuration changes to multiple servers, they may want to be able to refresh all of the configurat...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to remove trusted certificates from Connect Direct Secure + managed servers using Control Center

Currently, Control Center allows the user to import a trusted certificate. However, it would be extremely beneficial if the authorized user could also remove unneeded or expired certificates using Control Center.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Implement Password rules for FTP(s) and SFTP Server Adapter External Authentication

Our platform is using IBM Sterling Integrator 6.1.1 Not using Sterling Secure Proxy All the accounts are created using local LDAP on the app servers. These accounts do not use IBM Sterling Authentication. FTP(s) or SFTP Following are the requireme...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Update Installation Manager to use installed version of java

SBI currently requires IIM to install. IIM comes packaged with its own version of Java, which is typically out of date and (as instructed in a PMR) cannot be updated independently to bring into compliance. If IIM could be configured to use an inst...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Not under consideration

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration

Tracking variables [PF1, Pf2 etc] in Inflight Event Details

The variables [like ProcessingFlag1/Flag2/Flag3 etc] for each transaction are being set either at the BPN ST rule level or Map or both. At present, the Event details for the Sucess/Error messages don't have these values tracked in Inflight. Is t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Enable Control Center reports to display in multiple time zones

Currently when a user starts to setup a report to be ran, Control Center defaults with the time zone that the console preferences are set it. There is a drop down menu for other time zones, but when a user selects one of these, the report will not...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Allow for friendly names in e-mail configuration for PEM

It would give end users a more friendly e-mail from the PEM system. Our internal groups would like it to be associated with an entity like Partner Engagement Manager rather than text @subdomain.domain.com.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

IBM software needs some form of integrity check / digitally signed agent as proof of authenticity

We have a requirement when obtaining software and need IBM to provide an answer around the following requirement: We need to be able to test the source and integrity of the software being installed in the HSD environments. In my experience, this i...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Functionality already exists

myfilegateway download tab

When a producer uploads a file to a mailbox that has an associated routing channel, once the routing is complete the file shows up in the file listing in the producers download tab in myfilegateway. This has caused some concern for some of my prod...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration