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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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Make Field Userid optional in Secure+ Admin Tool "Save Active" Panel

When you are using Security Exits for C:D Signon, you do not need to specify a userid at signon. I don't need this at the update job for Secure+ as well. Using the "Save Active" Panel, you have to enter a userid, but you can leave the password fie...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1

Display fulfillment overrides information in Node Availability API output

If a node is disabled for a given delivery method the availability will show 0 but there's no context of why it's 0. Displaying fulfillment overrides information in output will allow callers of the API to distinguish between not having available i...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Functionality gap - support for signing of SAML AuthRequest to IdP required

It is a requirement of some IdP that AuthRequests sent from SSP to the IdP are signed, currently SSP only supports the signing of the AuthResponse. This is a gap
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection

Sterling Integrator SSP SEAS SSO OKTA connection
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Future consideration

Make (un)zip work in memory like excel adapter

We're working with a MQ-ACE-ITX setup. Being able to use (un)zip in memory would make it possible to work without temp-files to store the data. The excel-adapter has a switch to store/update stuff in memory, a similar way for (un)zip would be great.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Future consideration

Ignore case sensitivity when posting to add servers via API. Duplicate servers are currently not checked via case.

ICC Classic Console (java exception) and Web Dashboard when trying to edit a given node seemingly break when duplicate servers are posted that feature unique server IDs in the database but non-unique node details (hostname, node name). This proble...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Ability to import multiple activities at once

PEM currently requires you to import a single activity at a time and then name it. When importing to a new environment, it will be helpful to be able to do one of three things: - When importing, have PEM taken the filename as the name of the activ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Import/Export 0 Future consideration

Image Support

When uploading images currently, they are currently limited to the following formats: .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, and .bitmap There are additional image formats which would be helpful to support. SVG, TIF, PSD, EPS, AI, INDD, RAW Unlike older formats...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Future consideration

SIGNON command could provide a parameter for the message file and process library

It is useful for the SIGNON command to provide additional CDz software file specification parameters like the NETMAP parameter. This allows a user to use the same JCL procedure but able to override DDs within the control cards of CDz's SYSIN witho...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support LDAP authentication for standalone application manager

Currently OnPrem Standalone application manager supports local authentication , however we need to support LDAP authentication for security reasons.
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration