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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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The Partner Community Manager CM_CoreProcess has hard coded typing maps which limits our ability to extend functionality of the framework

The latest version of PCM comes with the typing map list in CM_CoreProcess hard coded. This means adding, removing and updating the typing list requires modification of a built in process. Not only will this BP be overwritten in future losing all ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Submitted

URL contains the session token which can be easily captured by an attacker

Control centre URL contains session token displayed in URL as a query string. Our security standard mandates that Applications should use an alternative mechanism for transmitting session tokens, such as HTTP cookies or hidden fields in forms that...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Submitted

Expand PCM correlation to allow bigger datasets of key and value pairs

PEM Standard / Partner Community Manager Correlation requirements Customer has a use case where they will be processing large files in B2B via PCM and using ITX for translation. Translation will be outputting correlation data. The high-water mark ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Application/Partner automatic search in the DataFlow

The current process of selecting partners or applications within the DataFlow lacks visibility on existing relationships with other partners or applications. As the number of partners and applications grows, it becomes increasingly challenging to ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Submitted

To log unsuccessful user logins to Gentran application into Audit Log

Currently, Gentran does not log the unsuccessful user login attempts into the application Audit Log (ProcAuditLog_tb). Our security team requires us to monitor this activity and respond to this as part of our security process. Without this logging...
11 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Security 0 Submitted

Enable File Visibility Control features in PEM Community Manager

In PEM Community Manager's, roles are assigned to users, allowing them to view file content from File Transfer Search. However, there is a security concern as users with these roles also have the capability to edit and upload files directly from t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Submitted

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

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM External Authentication Server in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM SEAS helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to...

Gentran Server For Windows 5.3.1 Windows 2022 Server and MS SQL 2022 Compatibility

Windows 2019 Server is going end of life in early 2024 so to keep server OS supported there is a need for Gentran Server for Windows 5.3.1 to be compatible with Windows 2022 Server. Also would be nice for the Gentran database to be compatible with...

User challenge questions and challenge-response system needs to be modified

01. Answer to each challenge question must have at least three (3) characters. Application which implements challenge and response mechanism must enforce the minimum length of the response as 3 characters. STRIDE Threat Type(s) : Spoofing, Technic...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted