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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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License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

To add search critirea or add an extra status option in InFlight to check exclusively the reprocessed entries in InFlight

This idea is to identify and lists out the entries that are reprocessed in InFlight separately. We can have an option in inFlight through which we can find out the entries which have been reprocessed. This will help us in listing out the reprocess...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Functionality already exists

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Add cipher support

Need to connect to a wide variety of Customers. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9D)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (0xC0,0x9E)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9F)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA0)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA1)TLS_D...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Failure Handling

It would be better if we can -> had a failure handling option in PEM (like on fault in SI) -> call another activity from one activity Let us know, for more details
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

Remove SEAS dependecny for Control Center to authenticate to Active Directory/LDAP

Will avoid another product dependency to AD/LDAP authentication and this also saves another platform that includes server resources. Once this idea is implemented, customers does not need to maintain another servers for SEAS and resources to maint...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Build server for OMoC clients

I am seeing lack of build servers as part of OMoC offering a big challenge with many client small & big. Today the client is responsible to setup this environment and whether they have an extended team to support their implementation or not, t...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Not under consideration

ICC Needs a mechanism not to restart whenever , user partner/user trustkey/public cert is checked in to ICC keystore

have enabled ICC SSL for java console to access with 58081.Steps used to performFrom ICC1.Created key store, created selfsign certificate and extracted cert in.arm format using ikeyman tool.2.Created trust key3.Ran configCC and provided paths for ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically assign email id

Currently in SCC, while creating the Action, we have to enter the email id, so this email id ix fixed for all the related rules. However if we can have option to assign the email id dynamically then we can send the file alert to concerned partne...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Monitor SI schedules and Routing Rules in SCC

Currently SI related schedules and Routing rules does not get monitored in SCC. Some of the SI related schedules are very critical and important for Customer, if that can get disabled then file processing does not happened. Similarly if Routing ru...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under consideration