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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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Single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring

Request to allow single UserID bind to multiple Identity for myFilegateway monitoring
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Modify statarch.sh to Delete compressed stats files after "x" amount of days

Can code be added to the statarch.sh script so that after "x" amount of days the compressed stats files are purged/deleted?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Audit Log for File Agent

Please add an audit log to Connect Direct File Agent. Preferably, this audit log would track all changes made to a File Agent configuration. This would include all items on the File Agent tab to include watched directories, etc. It would also incl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Parallel Processing

We would like the ability to complete sponsor and user tasks simultaneously.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 2 Not under consideration

Sponsor view to see all automated e-mailed sent

We would like to request a master view for the Sponsor of all the automatic emails sent. This master view should include, the date/time sent, the email content, and the recipient name.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

ERROR - SAP Status Messages reporting incorrect information if one IDOC fails all IDOCs in batch will show failed

IBM SAP Status Messages are reporting inaccurate information. Example, 1000 IDOCs are sent outbound from SAP to IBM in a batch. 3 IDOCS fail with status 04 from IBM. IBM will send back that all 1000 IDOCs have failed with status 04 even though onl...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

To avoid partial files in distributed systems

If the transfer destination is Windows or Linux, ConnectDirect doesn’t work with temporary files. So, CD starts to write the filename with definitive filename. So, if the transfer fails in the COPY step due to insufficient space or network issue, ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Not under consideration

To permit use wildcards in netmap

To permit use wildcards in netmap will be very useful in installations with hundreds of servers with similar naming. Installations are moving to cloud infraestructure and the number of virtual servers are growing up. So you can work today with 20 ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Enhance a import feature to import JSON SCHEMA and Swagger(YAML) as type tree

Currently we have capability in ITX to import the JSON file as type tree. But we have a challenge that customers might give all the possible fields and group which are mandatory/conditional in the JSON test file during development. So we end up wi...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration