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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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Control Center Director/Monitor - Updating Key and Trust store databases

Currently in order for CCM/CCD to be "aware" of change made to the key and/or trust store databases, the event processors (application) must be down. The configCC.bat/sh must be run in order to make CCM/CCD aware of the changes. There needs to be ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Export users list with user status (enabled or disabled)

Admin is not able to enable or disable the users in Sterling Filegateway and not able to export the user status whether the user is in active state or not.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

UI Updates to show where object is used

There are many objects in the system that have interdependencies. It would be very useful to have the ability to see where an object is in use. Examples: SSH Profile - show SFG partners that reference the profileHost Key - show SSH Profiles that u...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Sharing search saved searches between users

When we create good search saved searches to filter out particular results. It would be very useful to share them between full team. For example saved searches for customer service
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

Create API to list Node Relationships

There is no API available to show the Node relationship. There is an API (manageOrgRelantship) to create and manage Node Relationships. However, there is no equivalent list or detail API to show the relationship. Therefore a direct SQL call is req...
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Fix manageNodeTransferSchedule API to create Node Relationship that does not exist

Currently, the manageNodeTransferSchedule API creates a relationship in one direction from Node A to Node B. However if a Node Transfer Schedule is created in the reverse direction (from Node B to Node A), the reverse Org relationship is not creat...
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requiremen...
about 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration