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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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Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

The default Admin ID to be remove from a future release of software.

During the Control Center installation, admin accounts get created in Control Center, and as per the AXIS security team, there should not be any generic accounts like admin, administrator, etc As per IBM OEM the feasibility of removing the 'adm...

Security Vulnerability Password in Plain text

We have identified a security vulnerability regarding passwords being stored in plain text in the application.Despite the solution provided by IBM not being accepted by the application support team, they have recommended raising an RFE case. ...
2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Provide option in configuration to set to OOB where OOB recommendations are greater than standard configured Service Level configurations.

This would provide greater availability while saving on purchasing costs, etc.
7 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Include active MAXUSERS in high water mark SMF record

Highwater mark SMF record should include Active MAXUSERS to have full pictures of how region is performing. We've experienced BTL issues relating to high MAXUSERS counts and we don't have accurate insight into how many users are active at that time.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1

Reference portal/sheet for Services & Support Teams

It is an ongoing activity that new clients keep getting added to Config Hub. With the emphasis on extensive usage of Config Hub over Config Center, it would be ideal for Services and Support Teams to have the information handy, about the clients a...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Availability of maps from Config Center CTE to Config Hub

There are many new maps in Config Center (T) which are still under development and being tested by clients. These maps won't be available in Config Hub until they are moved to production. Movement to prod may still take time as clients and trading...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Inflight to flag transactions in RED for HTTPS response codes other than 200 (OK)

Currently Inflight is not checking the errored out responses from remote servers for HTTPS delivery . Files which are not validated and resposnes received are not 200 (OK) are also getting flagged as green . For example for the below file in Infli...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Provide availability and functionallity for Property Files from DB in order to use them in containers and On-Premise installations (essentially customer_overrides) description:

According to Support/Lab advice, we proceed to open the following RFE. The intention is to provide fully the use of properties from databases no matter if there is being used an on-premise or containers installation of the SBI. This functions were...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information