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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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Display pre-processor and post-processor map names on Inflight

This request is to add new feature to display pre and post-processor map names under In-flight event details section. This will benefit to both SCBN teams and client to identify the map names directly on Inflight and in case if they client needs a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Not under consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add Rest API for managing users

We would like to be able to add/modify/delete users via the Rest API. This would let us do centralized user management.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 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 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

Escape Special Characters in URL for Get Request

HTTP rest client's such as Postman typically allow for special characters in the Get request, PEM HTTP requests do not.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

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 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add a flag to the get partners API to have the partners custom fields included in the results

For the get partners API (pemws/sponsors/<sponsorContext>/partners/) add an optional flag which indicates that the partners' custom fields should be included in the results. The custom fields are currently returned when retrieving a single p...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Workflow tab set to “Awaiting my attention” as a default for all users as first priority. If not, for Read only users at least.

Currently when we select the Workflow tab, MRO IO application is set to show "My outstanding Workflows" by default Since many of our high end approvers are not regular users they are getting confused and require guidance on how to get into their l...
about 2 years ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration