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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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OMS Kubernetes Deployment - Add Labels

In the containerized version of OMS, the pods themselves have Kubernetes attributes called Labels, which allows us to filter by them during deployment (for example, to deploy only those whose "role" is "agentserver". However, Kubernetes has a Reso...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

File agent high availability run GUI cdfa -C from a single Default_Config.ser copy in shared workspace

Instead of maintaining multiple local copies of Default_Config.ser, could a parm be added to cdfa -C to direct GUI to use a single copy in the shared directory. Similar to the cdfa -w parameter.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

Database Interface Designer should take care of all character sets, and not only the obsolete ones

Currently (in 8.4.1.2 and earlier), Database Interface Designer cannot be told to use character sets other than the "historic" ones. It is of course possible to convert the type trees later, but would be better not to have to.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

ORACLE adapter cannot take benefit of DEFAULT values

We have maps which need to be able to use the DEFAULT value for some columnes, based on business rules. At the moment, there's no way to use the DEFAULT values, and a DEFAULT ON NULL does not solve all our issues.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

redesign Oracle adapter for BLOB datatype

The current Oracle Adapter has the following restriction: columns with datatype BLOB can be used on input/output cards only. It's not possible to use them in DBQUERY/DBLOOKUP commands due to string restrictions that are caused by the fundamental a...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request: Update to the Database Designer

Can the database designer be updated to import fields by character, in addition to bytes? There is an inconsistency with the current byte sizing when importing objects from a Unicode/UTF-8 database.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Not under consideration

mcompile results should be consistent

Current version (9.0.0.2) added a feature where timestamp based information is added to the compiled maps.We request to have this information optional and not by default.We also request to have the feature extended so that we can inject appropriat...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Not under consideration

Option for TLSv1.1 or Higher in FTPS Netmap

Request to either add an option for TLSv1.1 or higher under FTPS netmap > Security > Secure Connection > Security Setting for a FTPS adapter, or remove SSLv3 and TLSv1 from the "SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, or TLSv1.2" option under the same loc...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add successful security handshake information to the audit log

Add information to the SSP audit log regarding what was negotiated during a successful security handshake. For SSL/TLS this would include the protocol version(SSLv3.0, TLSv1.0, etc.), the cipher agreed upon and the client source IP. For SFTP/SSH t...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Future consideration

Email alerts for SEAS errors

Currently errors within SEAS cannot be detected without logging into the server and manually checking the SEAS logs. LDAP related failures (for example loss of connectivity to LDAP or expired password for the login we bind to LDAP with) are an exa...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Reporting 1 Future consideration