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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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Be able to remove expired or revoked certificates

In the SST, we have over 50 certificates, but only a few are actually used. I would like a way within SST to remove certificates that are not being used.
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 4 Delivered

Connect Direct Z/OS Password-less Sign-On : Use certificate authentication for the CD session. CD currently supports this for the API connection (e.g. port 1363) and exploring if this could be added for the server connection (i.e. port 1364). The goal would be to use the certificate Common Name as the user ID as we do for the API connection or expand to allow other sources for the user ID – Jobname, SPOE, in-line SIGNON, batch user ID, etc. – and define order of precedence.

Issue Description: Client has security initiative to remove passwords being exposed in jobs. If there is a sign on ID used it is ignored if there is a password less ID and defaults to the job card ID. If client removes password from the sign-on ca...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

ITX - Extend validation exception handling for messages with a known structure BUT an unknown (as more recent) version

Currently ITX FinPay routing map identifies a messages based on the tag <FIToFICstmrCdtTrf> in Document and not based on message name and its version (pacs.008.001.08). This causes a problem when a message based on a more recent version is r...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Delivered

Maintain FIPS support for SSP HSM

JCE FIPS implementation has changed in the JRE shipped with SSP 6.0.2 to add support for TLSv1.3. Require verification that FIPS mode will continue to be supported after migration from 6.0.1.1
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Delivered

Need ICC be able to monitor SEAS servers. Currently, ICC can monitor SSP and SFG. It should alos monitor SEAS.

So, I don't have to setup a separate third party tool to monitor health of SEAS.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Delivered

Support of IBM WebSphere MQ 9.0

Per RTC #561520, IBM have not claimed support for WebSphere MQ 9.0 support in Sterling B2B Integrator.The enhancement request is for the support of WebSphere MQ 9.0 in Sterling B2B Integrator. The latest version of IBM WebSphere MQ is 9.0.5.
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Enhance C:D to provide better support for zEDC datasets

We are implementing zEDC across our production environment and are trying to avoid mass updates to all of our C:D processes. We would like to be able to transmit a zEDC dataset without having to update hundreds of existing processes. Here is th...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

Maintain item search details and context over the different selections in BUC

It would help productivity in BUC if the item search feature remembered the selections previously made. There is the breadcrumb offering some persistence, but if the user jumps to Orders or anywhere else, all the item search selections are cleared...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Delivered

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for i5/OS( IBM i)

Security enhancement request to support IBMi 7.4 OS with TLS1.3
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 2 Delivered

New function 'QUIT()' to stop a map at a specific point

The client has requested a new function (perhaps called "QUIT()") which will stop the map at that point as FAIL() currently does, but with a non fail exit code (maybe a new warning code instead).
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered