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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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Show product version for servers added/monitored via OSA REST APIs

CCM/D currently shows the product version of monitored products i.e. SFG and C:D but it doesn't show for products monitored using the OSA i.e. SSP/SEAS. The OSA REST APIs should extract the version from the relevant events and make this available ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Show O/S version where C:D node is installed

CCD currently shows the C:D product version and operating system type. Adding the O/S version will enable risk analysis for O/S upgrades, extended support, as well as compatibility checking for planned upgrades.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

Provide additional filters for dashboard widgets

Operational users at large, especially global, customers want to be able to quickly see the status of their transfers and infrastructure for subsets of the whole. Whilst the file transfer widget supports filtering by server group this is not an op...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Integrate CCM with Open Telemetry

Provide the ability to emit key MFT/B2B events using Open Telemetry so they can be consumed and used for troubleshooting with open tools. Adding CCM capability to consume Open Telemetry signals will simplify integration across 3rd party products a...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

CD for z/OS: historical stats using Db2 instead of VSAM

The product only works using VSAM to save historical stats while other ISV products like XCOM from Broadcom can use VSAM or Db2 tables. We're preparing next upgrade from CD 6.2 to 6.4 and we must to define a new VSAM, then import previous VSAM inf...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

For Sterling Integrator container based deployment with ITX integration should have option to pass config-vars.mcv

For Sterling Integrator container based deployment with ITX integration should have option to pass config-vars.mcv
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM Sterling Integrator (or SEAS/SSP) in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Integrator helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra anno...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information