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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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JSON Support for Agents/Integration Servers

Be able to consume a JSON message via Agents and Integration Server. Currently only XML Messages are consumed. Similar to APIs we should be able to consume JSON messages.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to Server Inventory Report - Add File Agent version

I think it would be useful if the version of File Agent that is being used for a Connect Direct server (Windows or UNIX) be displayed on this report as well. Especially for Connect Direct Windows because File Agent is still a separate component.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Connect:Direct ZOS Support for UTF-8 BOM and FB (Fixed Block) format

Cutomer evaluating Connect:Direct on Windows and ZOS feedback that Connect:Direct does not support UTF-8 BOM and VB to FB format. Customer compares C:D to their current MFT solution that already supports this encoding conversions out of box. Custo...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

Add Release notes for 6.X in the format of 5.X

The Link - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS3JSW_5.2.0/nav_container_topics/sub_overview_release_notes.html used to provide complete details on what is changing in the version but for 6.X there is no update as such. This will help ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Is a defect

Add cipher support

Need to connect to a wide variety of Customers. TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9D)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM (0xC0,0x9E)TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM (0xC0,0x9F)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA0)TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8 (0xC0,0xA1)TLS_D...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

ICC Needs a mechanism not to restart whenever , user partner/user trustkey/public cert is checked in to ICC keystore

have enabled ICC SSL for java console to access with 58081.Steps used to performFrom ICC1.Created key store, created selfsign certificate and extracted cert in.arm format using ikeyman tool.2.Created trust key3.Ran configCC and provided paths for ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically assign email id

Currently in SCC, while creating the Action, we have to enter the email id, so this email id ix fixed for all the related rules. However if we can have option to assign the email id dynamically then we can send the file alert to concerned partne...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

CentOs Support

Installation of C:D on CentOs
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Functionality already exists

Need ability to use AlternateItemID in inventory APIs

We have a Global catalog where an Item is identified by UPC in US and EAN in Europe. (This is a common setup across companies)We have ItemID=UPC, and we have Item Alias for EAN.We can use AlternateItemID=EAN to create order and it works fine. But ...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Not under consideration

Define custom SSP CM user roles

Allow SSP administrators the ability to create custom CM User Roles in order to fine tune user's access right based on individual needs The current Roles(Admin and Operator) are to limiting. For example the Operator role can not review node defini...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration