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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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Add more SUBMIT traps for Control Center for Connect Direct File Agent

Additional SUBMIT traps have been added to Control Center 6.0.0.1 with Connect Direct File Agent 1.4 iFix021 or higher. While some of these are useful, there still is not one available that tells which File Agent rule was updated.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Control Center: Add Free Text Field tab for slc's

Please add a tab to Control Center slc's where slc managers can enter free text. It could allow them to add instructions/additional information.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.0 Web Console Enhancement #3

Currently it is possible to interface with other systems such as Connect Direct and Sterling B2B Integrator and File Gateway from the Java console. This functionality is not currently present in the Web console.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Develope Health Checker tool for Control Center

I have heard recently that a health checker tool is being developed for Sterling Integrator. I was wondering if a health checker tool could be developed for Control Center? Right now the only to discover issues is by looking at the engine logs and...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Delivered

Control Center 6.1 - Web Console Enhancement #4

I know that the eventual goal for Control Center is to move everything to the Web console and do away with the Java console. Currently in the Web console, a user that has appropriate access, can create, update, and delete rules. However, I notice ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Control Center 6.1.0.1 - Initiate Shutdown of EP from Web Console

Since much of the functionality is being moved to the Web console, it would be great if an admin could shutdown an event processor (one they're not logged on) and initiate the shutdown. Maybe even a system wide shutdown. The admin and other users ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration / Usability 1 Delivered

Enhancement request for Control Center 6.1 Web Console

The new Web Console design does have a nice look. However, there seems to be a lot of wasted space (white space). Reduce the space between rows. For example, on the Active Alerts and Queued Activity screens, there is too much space between each ro...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

deploy (Integration Flow Designer + sdeploy.exe) only support FTP. Can support for SFTP be added ?

We are working with WTX 8.4.1 with launcher on AIX. To deploy from Windows to AIX only FTP is supported in both sdeploy.exe and Integration Flow Designer. It would be more secure if SFTP could be chosen as protocol for transferring .mmc,.msl and u...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 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...
over 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 ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered