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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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Default Focus on first edit text in forms

Hello, with Store Next, when creating a new order and entering customer firstname and name: there is no focus on a particular edit text in the form displayed at the time we have to enter customer firstname and name. Scenario : I create an order in...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Is a defect

CheckInventory flag in the agent criteria arguments of schedule and release

scheduleOrder and releaseOrder API has CheckInventory flag in the API request. The agent criteria arguments for scheduleOrder and releaseOrder transaction currently doesnt support passing CheckInventory. Could you please include CheckInventory att...

MAC Algorithm Updates

We have a vendor that is requiring that we use "hmac-sha2-512" for our SFTP connection to them. I don't see that as an option per the documentation:The MAC the client prefers to use for stream encryption. Required. Valid values are:hmac-sha1hmac-m...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Create Better SFG Rebranding Documentation

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4TGX_2.2.0/com.ibm.help.sfg_sys_admin.doc/sfg_rebranding.html This document could use some serious expansion and updating. It would also be nice if some of the basic re-branding could be handled wi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Is a defect

Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Disclose installation documents to users

We have documentation regarding Gentran:Director, but the last update is 2011. It looks obsolete. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/sterling-gentrandirector-documentation
over 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Include transfer rates monitoring on active filetransfers

Please include file transfer rate monitoring mechanism on active filetransfers. We had an issue with partner where after partner side upgrade the transfer rate became very slow. The filetransfer that took previously minutes, was now hours long. Sa...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Under review

Change length of time before documents are archived or inlcude more details in archived data

Current, data is archived after just a month, we have a need to view the data fully for longer as our standard customer terms for invoicing is 90 days
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Customer ability to self service : To Configure daily/weekly/monthly report

Currently, we configure and send Reports to the Customers on the no of transactions that they process using IBM SaaS Environment. Below are some of the reports: - TP Summary Report Inbound Summary Report Outbound Summary Report We also get a...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.

Support Kerberos authentication for SEAS bind to ADLDAP.
over 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Future consideration