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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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Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

ITXA needs to check the ST02 control number ONLY within the current interchange for HIPAA, NOT against transactions from prior interchanges

APAR PH20861 https://github.ibm.com/ITXA/spe-features/issues/40 The update partially satisfies the healthcare needs required by the company.The property enveloping.CHECK_DUPSEQ_ST_CONTROL_NUMBERS_WITHIN_INTERCHANGE=YES introduced with APAR PH20861...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Customized views in transaction view

It would be useful to be able to save a set of columns for specific use cases. For example when we are searching for Purchase Orders we might be interested in a specific set of columns and when searching for Invoices we might be interested in a di...
7 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Under review

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Call HSM for synchronous backups from Connect Direct

We would like to include in our Connect Direct process a call to HSM to make synchronous backup of important production dataset received or sended to be able to make a fast recover in case of corruption or data lost. We have tried to make calls to...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Future consideration

Export all the results in one csv file, even if results are in multiple pages - IBM SQL DB Query Client

One request for enhancing the db query client. Even if results show up in pagination. Can you enable a feature where I can export all the results in one csv file. Like for e.g. if query results in more than 10K records, need a feature to export al...
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy a work queue as a starting point

We have some very similar work queues which are quite complex. It would be helpful if, like you can with tableau reports, you could "copy" an existing work queue as a starting point so that you don't have to recreate all the rules and risk missing...
3 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 3 Functionality already exists

Implement Emails for proactively monitoring API and agent's performance.

Similar to what we have on SST for MQ alerts where we can add thresholds it would be useful to have options to add alerts around API thresholds, Agents response times. This will be useful for customers going into Peak to foresee any issues of agen...
10 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review