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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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MyFileGateway LDAP Support

Currently we have multiple MyFileGateway users that we create, delete and update on a regular basis when new customers join the organisation. The accounts that access MyFileGateway are manually created and there is a large operational overhead on ...
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under consideration

Disable inventory safety factor on distribution group level

Currently, there is no option to ignore inventory safety factor when set on node level and configured in global inventory visibility. The option to disable safety factors on distribution group level would be beneficial in order to be able to monit...
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

CyberArk AIM Integration/Connector

As part of security's best practices, it is mandatory that all applications have a connector with CyberArk to retrieve passwords from functional users, so it isn't allowed to storage static passwords in the local servers/Properties files from appl...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 5 Not under consideration

Allowing command line editing of the CD File Agent configuration

There is a need within the Treasury to be able to script password changes to Connect Direct File Agents. Currently there is no documented way to accomplish this outside of using the GUI.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration