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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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Sterling Control Center to handle all events for Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager

System : SCCActor is SSP CM / Websphere MQ Presently Sterling Control Center (SCC) event monitoring from Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager (SSPCM) via Websphere MQ only works on few alerts, We need all events coming from SSPCM to Websphe...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Customizing user web interface.

We want customize user web interface with some predifined templates, to set by default for a user and/or roles. Goal is to set columns in a predefined order, and remove the unwanted ones.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

B2Bi should support the use of credentials from AWS EC2 instance profiles to enable access to AWS S3 buckets

B2B Integrator 6.0.1 provides an adapter for AWS S3. This adapter requires the use of AWS access keys (awss3.accesskey & awss3.secretkey) for access to S3 buckets. This is not a practical approach for automated batch processes since the AWS ac...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

connect direct windows 6.1 support MQ SQL SERVER 2019

I know that C:D Windows 6.0, 6.2 support MSSQL server2019. However, the web page still showing C:D Windows 6.1 only support MS SQL SERVER 2016. May I know C:D Windows 6.1 can support MS SQL Server 2019?

S+ installation: auto-fill parmfile passphrase

There is no need to fill in a passphrase that will never be typed again. The installation process should automagically create a passphrase instead.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Delivered

Signon from Connect:Direct Fileagent with JCU-File

We have hundreds of fileagents running and every time the passport changes on the target server were Connect:Direct resides we have an enormous effort.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Enhance Windows Connect:Direct Requester Application to allow granting granular permissions to Windows C:D nodes.

Allow Read Only, Update or No Access permissions to:• Netmap• Initparms• Functional Authorities• User Proxies o Change Current Passwords o Add New
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Allow sponsor to deactivate and remove a partner

Allow the sponsor administrator to deactivate as well as remove partners from their list of partners.

Display serial number for expiring trusted and key certificates

We utilize the Certificate Expiry Warning rule to notify our team when trusted and/or key certificates are expiring in 60 days. It doesn't appear that this is captured as part of the events. The reason I say that is the serial number is not presen...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Delivered

Include Time Limit For Dirty Node

We would like to be able to add a time limit to a dirty node instead of waiting on incoming units. For example, if the node is marked as dirty, only leave it marked dirty for 24 hours.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 4 Delivered