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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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Supply and Demand Snapshots

Similar to Product Availability snapshot where On Hand Available Quantity and Future Available Quantity are sent on demand in an event - we would like the option to push a Supply Event Snapshot and Demand Event Snapshot that will contain all the S...
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Enhanced functional maps navigation in studio

In complex mappings, it is sometimes hard to navigate across multiple levels of functional maps. Developers' life would be easiser if they could get back to the place where they were before going to a given function map
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered

Add SSL Support between IBM Control Center and WebSphere MQ to monitor Sterling Secure Proxy

Security mandates that all the connections need to be secured. WebSphere MQ supports SSL but not IBM Control Center, adding this functionality allows meeting the newer security requirements.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 3 Delivered

OM Next gen + IV to support CARRY/DEL delivery methods

Existing OM supports multiple delivery methods, but next gen SaaS plus IIV only supports SHP for availability. A simple fix as an interim solution is send delivery method SHP to IIV so that it returns that availability back so that DEL/CARRY metho...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 4 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Sterling Secure Proxy

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Add dedicated Safe Name and Object Name fields to Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows

Currently Password Exit tab in Functional Authorities in Connect Direct for Windows allows to configure Application ID and Policy ID only. This idea is to add other fields - Safe Name, Object Name and Secure+ Label name into these settings in orde...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Enhancement to Reservation API

We would like to add following enhancement to reservation API to meet the business requirements Reservation additional attributes - During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and pu...
about 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 2 Delivered

Provide support for S3 compatible storage

While many customers use S3 they may wish to use other vendors and universal support for S3 versus just AWS would be helpful

Providing a list of supported encryption keys.

VENDOR supported Keys Keys that will be supported RSA (3072) Ed25519 ECDSA (nistp521) The feedback from the PepsiCo ECG team below is we only accept the following supported keys: PepsiCo supported keys ssh -rsa 2048, ssh-rsa 1024, ssh-rsa , ssh-dss
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Compatibility with databases managed on cloud - DBaaS

On the last deployment scenarios in which applications are deployed on cloud (on virtual servers or containers) it would be useful to be able to use DBaaS distributions such us DB2 on Cloud or Azure SQL. It is a backward step to have to use on-pre...