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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...
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...

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Saving Filters in Control Center

We have a lot of users of SCC that monitor file transfers on a daily basis using the Select Statistics function of SCC. They would like the ability to save the filter they create and run so it can be accessed again instead of having to create a br...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Sterling Control Center Java thick client Admin UI functionality needs to ported over to the web based Admin UI

System : Sterling Control Center (SCC)Actor : MFT Administrators Presently to setup, install and configure SCC, we need to use Java thick client which is a Java WS application connecting on non-standard ports and requiring a Windows jump server to...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Password Standards

WebSphere can not handle special characters in the password, you need to limit it to alphanumeric. Security and Risk standards dictate special characters being used in all passwords for strength.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Delivered

S3Client needs to support non-Amazon S3-compatible storage (Dell EMC, etc)

S3 client needs to be able to connect to non-Amazon S3 compatible storage to support systems whose security requirements only allow for private cloud storage.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Statistics only with SNODE

If starting STATISTICS with the parameter SNODE you get only the informations this partner-node ist SNODE. You can't see the entries the partnernode is PNODE. In my example I can't see the the RUN-TASK-entries from the partnernode. In my mind it c...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Avoid skipped tasks and screens on Sponsor view

When a sponsor views the tasks that a partner has executed, every skipped task and every screen that should be skipped due to entry validation is displayed. When reviewing screens for approval, this will add significant time to the process.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Delivered

Some sites still require Implicit SSL due to business pressure

Implicit SSL is generally not a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for Secure Proxy. However, some of our customers experience intense business pressure...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Connect:direct windows support ms windows 11 as windows 10 will be eos at 2025

Windows 11 support

Bulk Supply/Demand API

Ability to call multiple API's with single API similar to multiAPI in OMS product. This will enable the customers to call multiple API's like get supplies, get demands with in same response for an Item and parse the data accordingly. Requirement S...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Remove Rate Limits in Pre Prod environment

We have multiple applications which receive data from IV and so when ever those applications including IBM OMS have a deployment we will execute performance tests. Having rate limit on the pre-prod environment limits our ability to perform the tests.
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered