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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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Utility to check compatibility and compliance of maps when upgrading to a new ITX version

ITX to provide an utility that can check if th existing maps are compatible with the new version of ITX or needs recompilation/modification. For shops with hundreds of maps this will identify the maps that need some action, hence improving the mig...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Functionality already exists

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SEAS

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSPcm, Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
about 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add process name filter

In the Control Center Web console, there is not currently a way to filter by process name. There is for process ID though. Please add a filter for process name.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Support of IBM WebSphere MQ 9.2

IBM have not claimed support for WebSphere MQ 9.2 support in Sterling B2B Integrator.The enhancement request is for the support of WebSphere MQ 9.2 in Sterling B2B Integrator. The latest version of IBM WebSphere MQ is 9.0.0.4.

SSP Authentication APIs

SFG REST APIs could send/receive files however for the external trading partners this is not possible with SSP in between
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Not under consideration

Add check Box to show default rules in BPN

BPN does not have the capability of checking the default rules created for a specific customer business alias.If a checkbox is added, the Implementer/PER/Support teams will be able to easily identify the default rules created for the customer. It ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Allow users to save filters in the Web console

Our operators are responsible for monitoring a particular set of servers. Currently, the users would need to either select the servers they want to monitor Active Alerts and Queued Activity for from the Java swing console or they will need to filt...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Planned for future release

Adding "Dictionary password checker" for password

Prevent clients from using common word for password.. e.g. password
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Not under consideration

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists

Rules Based Safety Stock to consider Future Available date

The further into the future the available stock is, the less certain it is that it will arrive on time. We want to set safety stock rules based on the future availability date so that we don't expose more stock with less risk, and less stock with ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration