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Control Center Certificate Expiration Warning Notification

The Certificate Expiration warning rule that comes with Control Center produces a warning if a Connect Direct Secure Plus certificate is going to expire within 60 days. However, there is no known notification for Control Center's certificate which...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 8 Functionality already exists

WTX/ITX Oracle adapter - automatic failover implementation

We are using the WTX/ITX Oracle adapter for our connection with an Oracle Exadata database. In case of database failure, Exadate switch automaticly to the second cluster node. >> Problem : At the switch time, all running maps faile with ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service for communication between cross account for S3 bucket. This is private S3 bucket.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Set up an alert to trigger when a flow experiences over X failed processes.

Implementing an alert for flows that fail more than three times will allow us to proactively identify and address critical system issues before they impact users or downstream processes, significantly improving our service reliability.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Passwordless connection to built-in local PostgreSQL

This enhancement should allow to use alternate access options to local PostgreSQL other than locally encrypted password to PostgreSQL user. Proposed solutions include: certificate-based authentication (preferred, if technically feasible) password ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 10 Future consideration

ITXA needs to check the ST02 control number ONLY within the current interchange for HIPAA, NOT against transactions from prior interchanges

APAR PH20861 https://github.ibm.com/ITXA/spe-features/issues/40 The update partially satisfies the healthcare needs required by the company.The property enveloping.CHECK_DUPSEQ_ST_CONTROL_NUMBERS_WITHIN_INTERCHANGE=YES introduced with APAR PH20861...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Encrypt data in Memory

Sterling Secure Proxy engine in the DMZ stores the configuration data in the memory but in a plain text, this enhancement request is to encrypt the sensitive data in the memory so the information is protected from various external and internal thr...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add more Ciphers for SSH to security.properties supported by JDK8

Please enable the following Ciphers: diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 diffie-hellman-group15-sha512 diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 rsa2048-sha256 AEAD_AES_128_GCM AEAD_AES_256_GCM hmac-sha11 hmac-sha2-512 Kind Regards
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

InFlight - Add Protocol Process ID as an addable column on search page

Adding Protocol Process ID as a visible, searchable field in the results page would allow isolation of traffic by connection for easier troubleshooting. This would be beneficial for both clients and support, and seems like it should be easy to imp...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Functionality already exists