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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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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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Users Need to be able to save their filters

We have multiple users that monitor different servers and the servers they monitor a particular week can change. It would be a great if users could save their filtered servers under a name that is meaningful to them and then they can select it for...
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Submitted

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025
7 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Add Conection to ISERIES Servers

Hello, We need to connect Steling control Center Director to ISERIES Servers to manage the configurations of netmap, secure+, Userfile. Actually its not possible with this software (SCCDirector). We are managing more thant 1500 servers with connec...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

Automatic reconfiguration of primary cluster node

It would be so much easier to migrate and not create a new databases just for adding or removing old nodes. Easier for maintenance and scalability as well.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

User Credential Management & Auditability in IV

Current Limitation: IV currently uses a single shared credential for all users. This results in: No traceability of who made specific changes. Lack of role-based access control, as all users have the same level of access (typically edit). Pr...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Within BPML, SFTPClient operation set needs a way to check status of an active session: introduce SFTPClientSessionStatus call.

One fundamental problem is that sometimes the SFTP Session will inadvertently end mid-operation, perhaps closed by server. When this happens, an operation call like SFTPClientList or SFTPClientPut will simply fault. It will return a SessionEndTime...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Add Password Expiration to the Password Policy for Control Center

We need to be able to set a password expiration for Control Center users. It needs to be flexible so that certain users/roles can be set to never expire.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

List Connection Type in the Server List Menu - i.e. TCP, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, etc

The Server List currently displays many items. However, it doesn't currently provide the connection type such as TCP, TLS, TLS1.2, etc. One must go to the details of the server in order to see that. I believe having the connection type listed with...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Need to be able to search/filter by process name for SLCs

We just recently upgraded our Test Control Center environment to 6.3.0.1. We've noticed that we cannot search by process name in the SLCs section. Only SLC Name and Description are available. This was available in 6.2.0.1.
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

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