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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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IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

SFG/SI users changing password with SEAS

There is presently no way to for a myfilegateway user to change their password if Sterling External Authenticator is used. Which seems odd because SFG can talk to SEA and validate an SSO token. There needs to be a feature to allow users to change ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

SFG does not accept any host key except RSA and DSS. Also there should be a configuration mechanism for ciphers.

SFG does not support any client Known Host Key except RSA and DSS. Now a days a significant number of clients are using Open SSH which uses ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 as the primary cipher and unfortunately SFG does not support that. We have at least 10 ...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Consolidate V2 SST Log Download into one Amazon S3 URL

Consolidate V2 SST Log Download into one Amazon S3 URL instead of multiple URLs for each instance. This feature was supported in V1 but V2 has splitted the app modules and user must use multiple URLs to download the app logs
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Secure Plus Error Message Enhancement

Is there any way to capture the SNODE name for which the SSL Handshake failure occurring with the error message CAPA202E, since the affected SNODE name is not present in the same line? We are able to find SVTM055I message in the next line but it's...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

New ROP Method - LT Usg + x weeks/months of Supply

Client is evaluating different strategies to see the potential impact on inventory holding with various holding methodologies - The current inquiry is LT USG + 1 Month of Supply. It seems to me this ROP Method would be LT Usage + x weeks of supply...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Functionality already exists

Need to build ITX 10.1.2.0 maps using Jenkins Pipeline and deploy in Linux environment

As part of our current process whenever we want to integrate ITX map with JAVA API, then we try to build any specific map in Design studio with specific environment like 'Build for specific platform' as 'Linux(INTEL processor). And move already bu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Azure SQL Server PaaS

Allow Azure SQL server platform as a service as a supported database.
over 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Cluster statistics utility - queue and thread monitoring

A utility is required that logs queue usage on each node in a Sterling Integrator cluster The utility should track queue usage over time by node and for each node be able to provide statistics (eg. average, min, max, count) for a time period on: Q...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for FTPing files in and out of OMoC

There are times when it is much easier to have an actual file be loaded to OMoC or exported from OMoC, that isn't currently allowed. An example of import is data migration as part of go-live. An example of export, apt to why this came up, is runni...
about 6 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists