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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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E-mail Template Variables Standardized

The numbers used to identify variables within e-mail templates should be consistent across all templates.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set tab order for objects within a dialog

Currently the tab order defaults to the order in which the objects were created and can not be changed. The objects get moved around and thus is confusing when trying to tab through to fill out a form.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Support NFS for work files in Connect Direct for load balancer setup

Support NFS for work files in Connect:Direct. Without the support of NFS for work files, Connect: Direct cannot be load balanced for restarts appropriately.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

HP-Nonstop Connect:Direct Maxdelay

Request for Maxdelay feature in C:D HP NonStop. To wait for the completion of a submit statement or interval time completes.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Please Test and Certify SQL Server AlwaysOn for Connect Direct

Please test and certify Connect Direct support for SQL server AlwaysOn. Our infrastructure team is pushing us to move our Windows install of C:D to SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups. Our lab advocate asked for this RFE as IBM has not t...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Not under consideration

HA solution for Connect:Direct using replication

Since Cloud VMs are widely used these days, has IBM considered to certify HA solution for Connect:Direct on Cloud VMs without requiring OS-level clustering software such as Windows Clustering or Veritas Cluster Software (VCS) for Linux? Those OS-l...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Activity Hierarchy

Create a folder structure for rolled out activities. Currently all activities show up in the same page with the most recent rolled out/closed activity. In the document attached, you can see above there are currently over 4500 activities rolled out...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Edit Activity Definition to Already Rolled Out Version

Currently, once an activity is Marked as Final, and rolled out to partners it is not possible to update that activity definition to those rolled out customers. This can be quite troublesome when an activity contains an API error or another error w...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Set time for automated emails

We would like to be able to choose when the automated reminders are sent out. Currently they are scheduled to be sent at midnight on the 7th and 9th nights. This time has proven very unsuccessful. People are not sitting at their desks and it gets ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Add comments when resolving an error

Currently when a partner receives an error, the sponsor goes into the activity and clicks "Resolve Error" for each activity. We would like to add a comments section for the "Resolve Error" function. This would allow us to include comments in the r...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration