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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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Adding in additional triggers for alt.comm.outbound

The idea behind this is to allow alt.comm.outbound to be triggered for other situations. Such as TCP timeouts after a session had been initiated.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Sponsor and Partner Admin can update the Partner Admin to an already existing user or a new user

No description provided
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Functionality already exists

Can we subscribe to the 'IV events' for different enterprises?

Events published based on separate inventory orgs, reduces the loads on the receivers, and it will increase the throughput.We are eagerly waiting for this enhancement from IBM, request you to please expedite this feature as soon as possible.
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

ITXA - Ability To Export Versions of Maps Other than Default from the TPUI

This would allow users to export older versions of maps.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Need to read/write files to 3rd part encryption format/schema via an I/O exit able to utilize sub processes for the decrypt/encrypt step.

We would be able to read/write to encrypted devices having proprietary formats.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

Store engagement UI: Streamline Reclassification of inventory across product classes

As a store operations associate I need the ability to quickly move inventory from one class to another. Currently IBM store requires an inventory adjustment out of the class with manual entry of the correct reason code and then and inventory adjus...
about 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Support SM2 Public Key Algorithm

SM2 is a four-part standard for public key algorithms specified by China. This enhancement is to support the file encryption and decryption by SM2 and perform file exchange with China.
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under consideration

Update SNMP support to v3

Security benefits, as per security issues detailed here: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-156A
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

Provide read only access to replica DB

There are many known issues with Data extract agent, and IBM cognos is not an option for many clients. Please provide access to the replica DB, especially some sort of mechanism for analytics applications like Tableau.
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve Provisioner Activity details using API

The "Activity Services" APIs at /activities/ and /activityinstances/ are hardcoded to only act upon Portal activities. Attempting to use them to retrieve instance details of Provisioner activities results in 404 errors. The API needs to be able to...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release