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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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PEM-Notification email required before password expiration for PEM login

Currently PEM users are not receiving any email notifications before the password expiration . If we can setup an email notifications to be sent to users before password expiration.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Legacy Inflight to have search option based on User ID for protocols (FTP/SFTP/AS2ID/HTTP/OFTP2(SSID/SFID))

We have request from high volume customers like VF Services/Ceva etc requesting for change in the protocol relationship as the partner has moved to other service provider/change in the protocol url's or moving from one protocol to other like (FTP ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Automated Cognos reconfiguration for High Availability

Installing ICC in a High Availability environment requires steps taken to reconfigure Cognos as detailed here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4Q96_6.1.1/com.ibm.help.scc.install.doc/scc_ensure_cognos_server_connection_HA.html Thes...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration

Add DR profile when primary doesn't work

Provide feature to add disaster recovery(DR) IPs by various partners for their primary sites while we setup sftp or other protocol remote profiles while configuring the profile. As on date, there is no way for SFG to setup so that the disaster rec...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Parallel Executions of a Shared Activity

In the case where a maintenance activity (ex. user account password reset) is shared to a partner account, we need the ability for multiple partner admins or users on that acccount to execute the same shared activity simultaneously. Currently, PEM...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 1 Not under consideration

SAP Adapter Configuration: Add Retry Limit and Retry time interval option

Currently, we have the option of Retry limit and time interval for FTP and SFTP protocols. As SAP Adapter in SCBN has been recently introduced, the option of retry limit and time interval is missing from Inflight setup screen. We should have this ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

SSP - Disable TLS1.0

SSLv3 is disabled by default in SSP in the java.security file with the following line of code. We have attempted to add TLS1 to disable TLS1.0 only and we were not successful. Adding TSL1 to the list of algorithms disabled all versions of TLS not ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Allow CD netmap in SSP multiple hosts/IP addresses under the same s-node name

Allow multiple hosts/IP addresses per CD node on SSP netmap. Currently in SSP v343 product, CD node and its address are 1:1 mapping. We currently have 4 CD server adapters on backend SBI 2 node cluster. These SBI CDSA all share the same CD node na...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

MQ notifications on CX

When notifications are sent using HTTP, as you only have one HTTP server to send the notification you cannot do any load balancing between multiple nodes. If HTTP server answers too slowly due to a large load, HTTP response code can be sent before...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Performance 0 Not under consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration