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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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Single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring

Request to allow single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring
almost 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

IBM Control Center Monitor Traffic from SSP

Right now Control Center lacks the functionality to be able to monitor file transfer traffic within SSP.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Modify statarch.sh to Delete compressed stats files after "x" amount of days

Can code be added to the statarch.sh script so that after "x" amount of days the compressed stats files are purged/deleted?
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Connect:Direct Sudo Backup/Restore

We install C:D via cdinstall as a user account currently working with C:D for UNIX 4.2. This user account has sudo access to run etc/cdcust so we can perform configurations requiring root privilege. This is great for fresh install and ok for upgra...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

XML to EDI outbound data does not inlcude reference to ST envelope within InFlight

Whether source format is FLAT file or XML file, we should always display ST envelope details in inflight (if we can find a match during enveloping service). In a nXML_TO_EDI flow, XML flow uses typing service where a typing map is executed (instea...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Support generic S3-compatible object store for document storage

On the Sterling roadmap is support for backing the B2Bi container document store with cloud object storage. Our company has on-site S3-compatible object storage (via Dell EMC ECS) - please ensure the S3 support includes S3-compatible setups and no...

Parallel Processing

We would like the ability to complete sponsor and user tasks simultaneously.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 2 Not under consideration

Sponsor view to see all automated e-mailed sent

We would like to request a master view for the Sponsor of all the automatic emails sent. This master view should include, the date/time sent, the email content, and the recipient name.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration