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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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Provisioner Activity monitoring screen enahancements

The Name filed displayed in provisioner activity screen is not making any sense to the admins , that's a system generated unique key and using that we can't identify / track the activities. The home screen should contain the fields - Provisioner A...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Activity monitoring screen enhancements

It would be really helpful if we add below mentioned columns in the activity monitoring home screen. Activity Status - (Errored / Failed and Success / Completed) : We can't go inside of every activity and check the status of each activity whether ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Moving picture password technology

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow SSP engine certificate to be configured through configureEngineSsl.sh directly

The configureEngineSsl.sh script only supports importing configuration exported from CM. Typically CM and SSP engines are installed on different machines in different network zones. The certificates will be put on the servers directly. It's a lot ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Improve Control Center email information for CCTR135I

I currently have a rule which reports if an insert to the EVENTS table exceeds 30 seconds. The email generated does not provided which managed server the EP was trying to insert the data for. This information can be found in the engine logs, but i...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Functionality already exists

Control Center SLC Holiday Processing

Please add an enhancement for Control Center that will help manage SLC alerting during holidays. Currently, Control Center calendars do not reflect holidays. As a result, the operators may have to handle multiple slc alerts due to processes not ru...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Replace Notify option with email option

Not really a new idea. I am just passing along details on how one can issue an email or text message from an NDM task using RUN TASK PNODE (PGM=IRXJCL) -
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide manageItemNodeDefn API

The createItemNodeDefn call fails if the record already exists and using modifyItemNodeDefn will fail if the record doesn't exists. So when Sterling receives the safety stock details, we have to first make a getItemNodeDefn call & then invoke ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

synchronize the versions of JRE in Connect Direct

Install agent is packaged with an older version of Java with numerous security vulnerabilities. Main java : $ ./jre/ibm-java-x86_64-80/jre/bin/java -version java version "1.8.0_261" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 8.0.6.15 - pxa6480sr6fp1...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Being able to monitor and get alerted for external services failures

External Services Monitoring Example: Alert if OMS not able to connect with Vertex Agent Trigger Failures Alert if Agent Job trigger failed/Failure
over 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Functionality already exists