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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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Dormancy feature is available at application

Dormancy feature is available at application for User Accounts
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Add the setting in SSP or PS can redirect incoming traffic to a different adapter after the adapter reaches its maximum session limit

For sftp clients from our external clients, their TCP sessions remain ESTABLISHED even though after users logoff. As a result, the Maximum Session limit of the SFTP adapter will be reached frequently. However, even though the session limit is reac...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Planned for future release

RTAM - Cannot run RTAM in multi threaded mode

Refer this PMR - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001FdfZAAAZ/service-to-execute-on-completion-of-work-in-agent-runtime-properties-does-not-work-in-multi-threaded-mode Let me consider a scenario here Total Records - 13000 Max Record ...
about 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

EnterpriseCode to be added as a Criteria Parameter for the Send Invoice Transaction

Currently, the out-of-the-box SendInvoice agent transaction does not support using EnterpriseCode as a criteria parameter. As a result, when the agent runs, it retrieves all invoices, regardless of the EnterpriseCode. The default query used by ...
11 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 6 Future consideration

Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Make Compatible With Windows 11 Pro

Microsoft is pushing to move to Windows 11
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Support for Windows Server 2022

Hello, Since Microsoft is sunsetting Windows Server 2012, we are needing to upgrade our current servers. We would like to move to Server 2022 but it doesn't seem to be supported yet. Would you be able to tell me if you are currently working on cer...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release