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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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FileAgent become another user

Allow File Agent user to become another account as specific folders are owned by different accounts. A little history, we were using some product to monitor files for different directories, the product allowed us to become another user to pick up ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Allow duplicate 997's to create SAP Status Message instead of failing

Today in SCBN, if a partner resends a 997or sends a new 997 for an already acknowledged document, and the 997 is used to generate a status message back to SAP, the process fails. SCBN should allow for SAP Status messages to be generated and sent t...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Standardize SYSOPTS syntax for multi-environments

SYSOPTS syntax is written differently depending on the environment: Windows, i5/OS, z/OS, and UNIX. Example on z/OS: SYSOPTS = "DATATYPE(BINARY) XLATE(YES) STRIP.BLANKS(NO)" Same example on UNIX: sysopts=":datatype=binary:xlate=yes:pipe=yes:" This...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Apply maintenance on a multi-LPAR CDPLEX

Currently, to apply maintenance to a CDPLEX that is in more than one LPARs, we must stop the entire CDPLEX and apply maintenance to the entire group at the same time. In a case to support they told that this is so because the Manager could have pr...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable Stop Deployment option

There are occasions where we accidentally click on deploy button and there is no way we can stop the deployment. Can the product atleast ask for a confirmation before initiating the process? or lets have a stop deployment option in the lower envir...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 3 Not under consideration

Prevent Netmap Node deletion if node is referenced by a Functional Authority

When an admin retires a netmap node that is no longer needed, sometimes we end up with an orphaned Functional Authority (FA) referencing a now non-existent netmap node. To prevent this from occurring, a new functionality could be created where Con...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Provide an audit of demand in a similar way to how inventory audit works today to see an audit of supply.

Whenever demand is created, cancelled, or closed by a reservation or schedule change the audit of that change should be written to a table. Could even use the existing YFS_INVENTORY_AUDIT table with the addition of a column to define whether a dem...
over 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Email Alert Formating

Email alerts, from Control Centre are in plain text format. Can the alert email format be using for example XLST and HTML to mark critical warning and success with appropriate coloring? Can we have for separate, for each alert, its own configurati...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

When Events are producing using Kafka adapter need acknowledgement as response.

When Events are produced using Kafka adapter needs acknowledgement like the respective offset number and partition number in Kafka broker.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Planned for future release