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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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Be able to remove expired or revoked certificates

In the SST, we have over 50 certificates, but only a few are actually used. I would like a way within SST to remove certificates that are not being used.
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 4 Delivered

Reporting Functionality for Rolled Out Activities

In order to succeed in Campaign Management this is a must have item. There needs to be a report with all partners who have activities rolled out to them with the current status. I have attached an example of what fields would need to be included, ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Delivered

- SPE-De-enveloping service-- ST/SE envelope--Duplicate_ST_Check_Enabled="Y" in the dynamically created parameter file

Currently the ITX map taking too much time when Duplicate_ST_Check_Enabled="N" in ST envelope . When we enabled the duplciate check it is taking the few minutes. As current ITXA is functioning per design and does not allow for the setting of Dupl...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Delivered

Allow multiple PGP decryption keys per community

We have a security requirement to use expiring PGP keys and change them every few years. Since Sterling only supports a single PGP key per community all of our trading partners have to change their jobs at the same time in order to use our new PGP...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Control Center

Rather than installing a new instance of ICC and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to know dates sooner rather than later. Please advised when support for RHEL8 w...

Suppress the diagnostic data being written to CDESTAE for the SCPA019I error

We observed that there is a dump of the file in DD CDESTAE after the process failed with SCPA019I An input LRECL > output LRECL detected for compressed file. It is an exposure of business data so it would be appreciated if it can be disabled or...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

Improve performance on SORTUP and SORTDOWN functions

Performance on functions SORTUP and SORTDOWN is dramatically catastrophic when there are "lots" of data to sort (25 min to sort 1 000 000 of numbers). See test case attached. Improving performance of those functions is more that required. New sort...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

SSP - add support for securing MQ connections

In order to monitor SSP via Control Center, MQ has to be used. SSP and ICC do not support secure connections to MQ. All our connections have to use SSL, therefore we cannot monitor SSP.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Delivered

Increase Key Exchange Security

We have a merchant who can't complete connectivity to SSP SFTP because they don't support the Key Exchange we currently have available. Their preference would be to use these kex protocols:ecdh-sha2-nistp256 ephemeral-ephemeral elliptic curve Diff...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered