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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 component rules validation optional, just as it is the case with restriction lists

In WTX, when running a map, there's an option to avoid validating restriction lists. Having the same option for component rules could be useful in some cases.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Functionality already exists

Include SSL library for zLinux Secure Adapter Collection.

We are using Message Broker and WTX Integration Server + Secure Adapter Collection to contact web services and transform the results. Unfortunately the SSL library (mercssl.so) is not included for zLinux like it is for other platforms. Please incl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Functionality already exists

HTTP Adapter Enhancements

Banking sector needs a lot of security on the data we share . The current Http adapter supports some of these functionalities but not all. Currently we are implementing api's or integrating api's by writing jexit function to call an external java ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Functionality already exists

enhance Type tree importer for flat files

ITX has / had an importer for flat files. This is tedious to use. This request is to enhance the importer. Can it be modeled like a text to column importer in Excelcan it receive its definitions from a csv and be based on the APIs that can be exte...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

support milliseconds in datetime

A lot of operations track times to the millisecond. This request is to add millisecond support to ITX.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Allow variable use in arrays

WTX does not support the use of a variable in an array. So this request is to add this feature in future WTX/ITX releases.That is, a variable can not be used in an indexed field.For example, you can not use Name[INDEX($)] or Name[x], where x being...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Add an option to the output file adapter to generate a unique filename

A new option U for the output file adapter to put the result from the card in a file with a unique filename.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Functionality already exists

WebSphere Data Interchange z/OS 3.3.0 and DB2 V12 for z/OS compatibility

From PMR# 43108,227,000, the latest supported DB2 version for WDI 3.3 on z/OS is V11. We are planning to upgrade to DB2 for z/OS V12 soon. Is WDI 3.3 compatible with DB2 V12, and are there any PTFs required to be compatible with DB2 V12 (function ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Functionality already exists

SFG/SI users changing password with SEAS

There is presently no way to for a myfilegateway user to change their password if Sterling External Authenticator is used. Which seems odd because SFG can talk to SEA and validate an SSO token. There needs to be a feature to allow users to change ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Functionality already exists

SEAS RFE to make generic authentication more robust

According to the SEAS L3 team this is basically working as designed. The Generic authentication do come with limitation, your user will be mapped to 1 user, in your case, this is admin user.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists