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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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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

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

Capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers (Not MQ FTE) using IBM Control Center

Could you please add the capability to Monitor IBM MQ Servers using IBM Control Center.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 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

Add equivalent of cdai_verifyUpgrade parameter

For silent install, users get a chance to set upgrade options (parameters). One of those is cdai_verifyUpgrade which enables/disables step that performs loopback transfer after upgrade to verify if upgrade was successful. If loopback transfer is n...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Allow B2B APIs to create/modify/delete Native PGP Keys

Currently the ability to interact with Native PGP keys via API only appears to be available when SFG is licensed, though the Native PGP functionality is available with the standard B2B Integrator, so we'd like the ability to onboard our users and ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Is a defect

COC Data Extract should send deleted records to the FTP to avoid orphaned records in target data warehouse.

When we remove and add new data thru API or internal code, the deleted records get removed and not propagated to the target system consuming the COC Data extract data published from OMS. This causes additional records to be retained in the target ...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Enable FASP support via SSP Perimeter Servers

We recently learnt via a support ticket (as this is currently undocumented at the time of writing) that SSP is unable to route the UDP traffic used by C:D's High-Speed Add-On FASP through SSP Perimeter Servers. This severely limits the scenarios w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

DBCS directory/file name support in CD Process

Customers in China often creates directory and file name in Chinese. C:D doesn't support src/dest file path containing DBCS. Request to enahnce the C:D Win/Linux/Unix product by adding an additional parameter in CD Process to specify the encoding ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 0 Not under consideration