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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...
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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...
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Monitoring SSP authorization through SCC

Hi Team, One of my client has a requirement to monitor and generate a report which gives the details of users who initiated a connection to SSP.It should capture both successful and unsuccessful attempts along with the username. Currently, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Allow custom metadata tags rather than forcing predefined tags like "business reference"

Our viewers come from many teams and may want to search documents by different important tags. Such as 'SHID', 'MBOL', 'LoadNumber', 'OrderNumber', 'InvoiceNumber', etc. Today Inflight only allows "Business Ref", and ExtraInfo 1-3 for data like th...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) / Mapping & Translation 4 Future consideration

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Ability to mass download maps, codelists, envelopes, comm setups and routing rules for periodic backup

The customer wants the ability to download their assets—maps, envelopes, codelists, communication setups, and routing rules—from our SaaS platform via APIs. This will allow them to maintain a local backup of latest copies of these assets.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

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