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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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Ability to signal a translation error if the max number of loops is reached in a map.

You can indicate the maximum number of loops in a map, but have no way to trigger a translation error if that limit is reached. Currently if the translator hits the maximum number of loops, it does not signal an error but continues on with documen...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Sanity check on number of overall segments or size of resulting document during an import translation

Mapping errors can cause extremely large documents to be created. Currently there is no way to limit this. It should be possible to set a maximum number of segments for a document or on its resulting size and signal a translation error if that thr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

MyFileGateway Password Policy, expiry prompt and password reset functionality for external users (i.e. LDAP via SSP/SEAS)

Ability to notify password expiry to the external users (i.e. LDAP user) via MFG Ability for external users to be able to reset their LDAP passwords via the MFG UI. Ability to relay the LDAP password policy to the external users via MFG Enforce LD...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Center label in table column

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Add non-breaking space into a label field

Add spaces at the beginning or end of a label
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Different icon in directory for bulk uploaded partners vs. waiting for approval partners

No difference between the two icons so you can't tell who was bulk uploaded and who needs to be approved.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

The maximum length of a source or target HTTP adapter command required more than 3000 bytes

As part of a new rest API web service calls, we have an access token response length more than 2500 characters and this can't be included as part of body or default HTTP header. As API system is of legacy and used by multiple vendor systems these ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste Mappings

Currently every time you map an object you need to go through the picker. If mappings are the same or similar it would save time to be able to copy and paste them.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Option to rename installation directory for Control Center upgrades

We would like to have the option to be able to update the Control Center installation directory location/name after install. For example - when you install it provides a default directory name "ControlCenter6.1.0" as the default name, but when you...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release