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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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Option to disable Connect Direct Web Services web page

Current version of Connect Direct Web Services software provides two interfaces - RESTful API and webpage GUI access. Software should allow to disable web GUI access.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Intrinsic Symbolic Variables for other Connect Direct Platforms

Currently, Intrinsic Symbolic Variables is only available to CD z/OS and CD Windows. This should be made available to other CD platforms as well.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Planned for future release

include the encrypt/decrypt (export/import) passphrase into the properties file for rest api calls

We were looking to find a way to automate updating passwords for some of our accounts within SEAS utilized in our connection settings. It prompts for a decrypt passphrase that we cannot seem to pass values through automatically via script and we w...
about 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Retrieve Provisioner Activity details using API

The "Activity Services" APIs at /activities/ and /activityinstances/ are hardcoded to only act upon Portal activities. Attempting to use them to retrieve instance details of Provisioner activities results in 404 errors. The API needs to be able to...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Bulk download of orders and orderlines from Optimizer Explainer

The current Optimizer Explainer does not a have an option to export the orders, order lines and node details to be exported to an external template for further review and analysis, the limitations lead to the following challenges. Difficulty in id...
over 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 2 Planned for future release

Gentran Server Workbench Needs to Support AIX 7.1

Currently Gentran Workbench 6.2 only supports the UNIX operating system up to AIX 6.2. Since support of AIX 6.2 ends April 2017, the software should be upgraded to allow for this.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Other 0 Planned for future release

Report inventory for multiple items in a table in BUC

We can currently search on multiple SKUs by separating the SKU with a comma. But the user still has to drill into each item separately once the search results come back. If the user has searched on a single node or singe DG, they should be able to...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Activate Activity Name as link

In a Partner's profile, there is a tab called, "Activities". This displays the activities that have been rolled out to that partner. When you display these activities, if you would like to go to the activity itself you must: check here for the nam...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Enhance PEM Provisioner Monitoring

Please see attached file for screen change mockups of the following proposed UI monitoring screen changes. Summary Screen Elimination: Eliminate this screen as it provides little value Participant Activity Progress Screen Changes: Pull the Overvie...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Planned for future release

Enhance PEM Portal Monitoring

Please see attached file for screen change mockups of the following proposed UI monitoring screen changes. Summary Screen Changes (Partner Rollouts): Show count of errored instances Show count of delayed instances Enable filterable report exports ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Planned for future release