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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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Have statistics Records (CT and maybe others) indicate the true node a transfer was sent to when ALT.NODEDEF is coded in the Netmap for a node

Currently if two nodes are defined NODEA and NODEB in the netmap and NODEA has ALT.NODEDEF=NODEB coded, if NODEA can not sent to its primary IP address coded then the file will be sent to the IP address coded on NODEB. The issue is that the CT sta...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 7 Delivered

BUC - make inventory reporting bundle aware

BUC inventory search should be able to take a SKU which is a bundle and return the inventory at the selected nodes, calculating the inventory of the bundle based on the inventory of the component SKUs.
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Enhance SFTP Inbound Push and SFTP Outbound Pull Configuration Profiles to store authorized user key

The SFTP Inbound Push and SFTP Outbound Pull Configuration Profiles does not have the option to store authorized user keys. These keys are needed for SFTP key authentication and should be stored in these profiles.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Enhance the product to prevent large file transfers from failing when the TCP channel goes idle and gets closed due to inactivity.

When using the Aspera FASP capability in Connect Direct and SSP the TCP channel will go completely idle while the data is being transferred over the UDP channel. Production networks will detect this as an inactive sessions after tjust a few minute...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

Single IBM ID Sign-in for Customer Centre Suite of Products

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Delivered

Enable PUBLIC_KEY Authentication for Inbound Push/Outbound Pull SSH-FTP Configuration

Since PUBLIC_KEY authentication is supported the PUBLIC_KEY option needs to be added to the Authentication Type for Inbound Push and Outbound Pull SSH-FTP. It is already available for Inbound Pull and Outbound Push.

Embed refresh report in PU process

Clients complain that the PU completion email has arrived but yet their analytics reports have not got the latest data. The refresh_report is a separate process. There should be some automation to avoid confusion on clients so once the PU is finis...
about 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 5 Delivered

Allow selection of PGP Profile on the Partner Profile in SFG - currently SFG only allows AFTPGPProfile

File Gateway today only allow the use of the static PGP Profile named 'AFTPGPProfile' - thus allowing only 1 type of PGP encryption to be used platform wide. We have vendors (using AWS S3) that only support the OpenPGP standard / GnuPGP for encryp...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Delivered

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated. Currently, the audit is enabled for supply and demand updates to IV but there is not capability for client to know if an event is generated to webhook or COS. We see there are many instances where ...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Issue messages to the CDPLEX Manager job log when CDPLEX Servers enter and leave the XCF Group

there were no message observed in the CDPLEX Manager job log when a CDPLEX Server enters or leaves the XCF group, we feel it is extremely important to Broadridge and others that messages about the CDPLEX Servers when entering and leaving the CDPle...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered