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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...
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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ITX output validation

ITX has option to validation the input file against schema by using the Schema-validation Option on the input card. Same can be disabled by choosing Well-formed. This option is not available for output file that is generated by the map. It would b...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 4 Functionality already exists

IBM Control Center Support AD windows authentication method for SQL server database

To meet Industry security standards to authenticate to Enterprise Active Directory tool
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Compliance check Map response sequence mismatching after processing in ITXA

Currently the sequence of output cards after processing in ITXA is not matching with compliance map and it is generating randomly. when we verified with the ITX team and they have confirmed that it is generating in sequential order in the ITX env...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Only fixed email templates can be used with API sponsors/{sponsorContext}/sendemail

Right now, we have fixed email templates within PEM which we can use to link with this send-email API. Meaning if their is a new need then the only option we have to change any of the existing template and no other way. Please see that we should h...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

ITX - Expand SERIESTOTEXT function with a delimiter

Currently the SERIESTOTEXT function just concatenates the content of an array which doesn't make it useable in my case. Adding an option for a delimiter like SERIESTOTEXT(Field(s), ",") would make a comma-separated string out of the array which wo...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

We are upgrading our IBMI servers to V7R5 and need connect:direct compatibilty.

We are currently on V7R4 and have been told that the recommended connect direct patch level is V3.8.0.3 with iFix 7. We need to know the compatible level for V7R5 (when available)
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Solve Security issue user creditionals management console on ITX version 10

When you configure the management console on a Linux host (probably also on Windows) to connect to a launcher, You are required to configure the network connection to the launcher and the username and password to logon. This configuration is store...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Management Tools 1 Not under consideration

Get Availability by tag (inventory identifier)

IV does not currently provide availability by tag. It does support taking supplies/demands by tag. OMoC will generate the TagNumber and pass it to IV for supply/demand updates. IV will store them as OMoC had provided. However, you will not be able...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Custom HTTP Headers Response for B2B Sterling Integrator Applications

Web Application Security is always evolving and new vulnerabilities and hardening futures are being created continously. Many of the vulnerabilities remediation are based of add parameters in the HTTP Response Header. For example: Content-Security...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Undertake housekeeping for all database tables

Under ICC database tuning, there is a comment that indicates that records need to be manually pruned from a number of tables: The CC_PROCESS, CC_PROCESS_DVG, CC_FILE_TRANSFER, and CC_FILE_TRANSFER_DVG tables contain the summarized information for...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists