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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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Secure Connectivity to iSeries C:D Nodes

Currently Control Center doesn't have the capability to logon to iSeries C:D nodes using a secure logon.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Activate Activity Name as link

In a Partner's profile, there is a tab called, "Activities". This displays the activities that have been rolled out to that partner. When you display these activities, if you would like to go to the activity itself you must: check here for the nam...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Connect Direct Web Services - API Method for Connect Direct Version

There is currently no API method available to retrieve or GET the Connect Direct Version using the REST API, although this is available the the CDWS Web Console (see attached image). Can this method be considered?
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 5 Planned for future release

SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Increase the size of Default_config.json in CDFA 6.3

have observed in the wild (namely, banking sector customer support scenario), that when the default_config.json is larger than 1MB, integrated FA fails to either import the new configuration, save new config or reopen the configuration for editing...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Work Queue Exclusion option for items in Workflow

Items that are currently routing for approval may carry over from one month to the next. It would be good to have the option to exclude items from wok queue if they are routing for approval.
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Planned for future release

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true needs to be added into the security.properties.in file

per IBM - There is a technote that indicates security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true be added to the customer_overrides specifically to ignore OID errors caused by certificates with attributes not supported by the Certicom jar files which SI use...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Associate CLA2 adapter to specific application node.

It would be helpful to have the command line adapter be assigned to a specific node in a cluster environment like the file system adapters or most of the other adapters are associated to a specific node. This would prevent if a node wasn't running...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Planned for future release

Wildcard Copy to and from Cloud Object Stores

With many customers now moving to the cloud, sending receiving multiple files at a time from the object store is a mandatory requirement for many of our customers and without this support, they are preferring using S3 copy / data sync.
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release