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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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Cluster statistics utility - queue and thread monitoring

A utility is required that logs queue usage on each node in a Sterling Integrator cluster The utility should track queue usage over time by node and for each node be able to provide statistics (eg. average, min, max, count) for a time period on: Q...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Contol Center needs to have a contingency synchronization function

Control Center needs to have a configuration synchronization feature that keeps all of the non-server specific configuration items in sync with a contingency instance of SCC that is not running but shares a synchronized database. Manually copying ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Security Admin Role

Create a Security Admin Role that can add/delete id's in all roles and not have access to any other administration permissions such as being able to administer the application, add nodes, etc. This role is for the Security group to manage the priv...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.1 - Eliminate "This user is already logged into IBM Control Center web console" Message

Currently if a user is already logged onto the Web console and logs in again, they receive the message "This user is already logged into IBM Control Center web console". We would like to have a way of either turning this message off or customize t...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

CDWS - login for protocol wording

The label for selecting the connection information currently listed as 'Protocol' should be changed to something more descriptive such as “Cipher Protocol” and instead of defaulting to “TCPIP” it should say “NONE”. Having “TCPIP” in there is just ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document

In EDI Correlation, view inbound acknowledgment for outbound document. If the partner partially accepts or rejects outbound document, it would be useful to easily view the partner's inbound acknowledgment for the outbound document.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to delete expired Secure+ certificates

When there are several hundred servers with expired certificates, it's extremely time consuming to log into each individual C:D node to manually deleted the certificate. The ability to delete old/expired certificates from Control Center will simpl...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Add user, role management to the BUC tool for users who are administrators

Allow a BUC authorized user with admin privelages to manage OMS users directly in BUC. BUC users should be able to see users by enterprise, team, group or role. Actions allowed should be to delete a user, create a user, or update a user's informat...
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 4 Future consideration

modifyItem Category should allow an action attribute of "manage"

In keeping with the purpose of the manageItem api, allow an action of "manage" on the action attribute on the Category node. This value should cause the association to be made if it does not exist and be ignored if it does exist. Furthermore, if t...
almost 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Security Administration Report from SPOE administration

Using the ADMIN function to maintain entries in SPOE is basically performing security administration functions. In some environments auditors/regulators like to see who is performing administration and what changes they are making. Requesting that...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration