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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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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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SEAS RFE to make generic authentication more robust

According to the SEAS L3 team this is basically working as designed. The Generic authentication do come with limitation, your user will be mapped to 1 user, in your case, this is admin user.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

SEAS to allow different passphrase for the KEYCERT and Keystore and Trustore

SEAS has to allow different passphrase for the KEYCERT and Keystore and Trustore. When submitting a CSR to Symantec CA a certificate passphrase has to be setup. Currently it MUST match Keystore and Trustore passphrase or certificate import and/or ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

OpenLDAP support - Force password change on File Gateway Logon

We use OpenLDAP for password authentication of our external customers. Spoke with IBM developers (listed in PMR - Naru Manda) and was told that when Sterling was written because OpenLDAP did not have a password policy at the time, that no hook was...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Needs more information

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be assigned to dedicated Person(/Admin)

ControlCenter ActiveAlerts can be designed to a dedicated Person/Admin.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

Duration Schedule SLC-Generated Message -CSLC043E does not contain detailed information

We have designed one Work flow SLC with Metadata Rule and actions to work on events posted by ITXA. There is also one rule created based on message id: CSLC043E , Event Type: SLC Notification to trigger an alert if Workflow/Milestone/Step/Process ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Not under consideration

Non SuperUser Node Discovery Permission

Currently the only role within Control Center that can run a Node Discovery is the superuser role. We need this to be a permisson that can be set to other roles.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

Requesting archiving for partitioned database

System Settings, database has archiving functionality for non-partitioned databases. We are requesting a similar utility be designed for partitioned databases.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Functionality already exists

SNMP Trap DateTime format issue

SNMP trap datetime format generated from Sterling Control Center always in UTC format irrespective of datetime config. in SCC settings while requirement is to generate the datetime format in ETC OR as per the configuration presents in the ICC sett...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh

o I would like to see the ability to assign/choose a TLS protocol level from within configCC.sh during secure setup of secure ports (Apache and Jetty setup), such as TLSv1.2 to replace the default of TLSv1.0
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Cognos reporting does not return MQ return codes - Refer PMR 34702,442,000

When we run Cognos report, we filter based on Event Return Code under MQMFT FIle Transfer Report, it never comes with return codes as 40.We can see the return codes coming as 0,1,2 and 8 instead of standard MQ FTE return codes like 20,40 etc.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

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