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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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Ability to Stop/Start a particular instance of an Agent/Integration server

Hi Team, As a part of housekeeping activities we often come across scenarios where we need to do a restart of a Agent/Integration server. This restart could impact the processing of orders for a time being which could lead to business impact. To d...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Functionality already exists

Passwordless login in CDWS

Our connect-direct node is using a passwordless unix user for communicating with our partners node (snode). As of right now (v 6.0.0.3) the Connect:Direct WebServices GUI is requiring password in order to login on our node. There seems to be no wa...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

findInventory does not validate zip code length

For invalid zip codes which are 10 character long and first 6 characters are valid, findInventory returns valid results. instead it should throw error.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Inventory Visibility Service | APIs | Supply & Demand List APIs

IBM Inventory Visibility Service does not provides an API to GET all supply or demand data for an item from IBM Inventory Visibility Service in a single call (or each type), instead what is available today is you need to call per Ship Node. In our...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance. It helps in avoiding outages

Adding feature such as “Generating SSL Certificate Report with expiration dates” from IBM Control Center for all Connect Direct Nodes would definitely be helpful and can have quick glance as a report. It helps in avoiding outages as well.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Need the ability to build the doc ear on the OMoC self serve tool

The OMoC self serve tool should also expose the ear build option to build and deploy the doc ear. This will allow for javadocs to be viewed through the dev and QA OMoC environments. Alternatively they should be publicly available like they are for...
about 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Not under consideration

Make the version info in the banner of the CLI commands (direct, ndmcli, ...) & GUIs consult a file in the install tree

We have received several security findings because CD gives version details that will allow hackers info on how to hack the software.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Not under consideration

Receive Certificate Expiration Warnings for Connect Direct Web Services on Control Center

Since Connect Direct Web Services is a component of Connect Direct and uses certificates for securing connections to the Connect Direct, there needs to be a way to receive warnings when a certificate is due to expire from Control Center.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Allow administrator to disable specific adapters

We provide a transformation API to service to users - users can call existing maps or upload maps. Maps could be written such that they access local files on the API server either by using input / output cards or GET and PUT functions. the API s...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 1 Not under consideration

Support MQ HA when configuring Topic for monitoring SSP

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release