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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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Enable file exchange access to IBM Sterling Global High Availability Mailbox with Connect:Direct

Connect:Direct has the ability to transfer files using several application files storage platforms such as local files, NFS, S3, and others. This could be extended to support direct access to B2B Integrator mailboxes and, in particular, to Global ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Not under consideration

Include ForgeRock Directory LDAP service to IBM officially supported list

We're using ForgeRock Directory service in LDAP and enabled HTTP password policy. But got an issue that the warming message will be changing randomly with multiple login attempted. case has been raised to IBM but they noticed that ForgeRock Direct...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Under review

Monitor Alert on Self Service Process Failures

If a self service process falis ( server trigger failued ) we need a alert on the email
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

List Connection Type in the Server List Menu - i.e. TCP, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, etc

The Server List currently displays many items. However, it doesn't currently provide the connection type such as TCP, TLS, TLS1.2, etc. One must go to the details of the server in order to see that. I believe having the connection type listed with...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Need to be able to search/filter by process name for SLCs

We just recently upgraded our Test Control Center environment to 6.3.0.1. We've noticed that we cannot search by process name in the SLCs section. Only SLC Name and Description are available. This was available in 6.2.0.1.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Adding Custom Metadata to ICAP Request

We have a need to add additional custom headers to the ICAP request, as our Icap solution does support a header called x-metadata that meets ICAP protocol standard. For the extra header based on the documents it is when a file is unscanned you can...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Customize the mailbox creation for partner creation

Hi Team, We need ability to create few additional mailboxes once new partner creation on SFG. By default when a partner gets created, a root , inbox, archive mailboxes are created. We want below structure to be created when new partner is ad...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Submitted

SPE Transformation Service adding CDATA for Process Data update

CDATA is adding a prefix in process data for ITXA transformation when actual data contains "&" in the input file which is causing the issue. Currently, with SI transformation/translation service, the prefix is not getting added. However, in...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review