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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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Need Option to cancel InProgress Move

Store Next Gen : Should provide the ability to cancel the Inprogress move through UI irrespective of Serial availability in SIM. Existing Behaviour : Able to cancel the move which is in Not started state.
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Other 0 Delivered

Control Center - Self Performance Monitoring

We can monitor log files to account for this shortcoming to catch it while it is occurring, however, we would ideally be using the monitoring built in to application (Control Center) to discern when the application is in a distressed state.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 2 Delivered

Propagate source DCB information to SNODE when using DATACLAS= keyword

The beauty of zOS-to-zOS COPYs is the inherent ability to automatically transfer the source DCB information to the SNODE side for proper dataset allocations. If the source DCB changes, the process does not need to be altered. This generic process ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

C:D 4.8: Add support for Windows 2016 core + clustered environment

At the moment, only Windows 2012 is supported in a core and/or clustered environment while more and more customers will do the move/upgrade to Windows 2016. In the actual context, the market tends to secure more and more their environments. By usi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

Add RequestType UnprovisioningRequest for each protocol (Unprovisioning API)

There is no way to unprovision a setup in SFG from PEM currently. This is a common request from clients. Following the PEM architecture of the codelist integration with SFG there should be a "Delete" configuration which then initiates an unprovisi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 1 Delivered

999 ISA Control Number

Currently the ISA control number (ISA) always has a value of 000000001 in every 999 transaction that is generated out of compliance. X12.5 Interchange Control Structure section 5.1.2 requires a unique number within a reasonably extended time frame...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Delivered

Type 5 editing based on date of service for medical code sets

Currently type 5 editing is based on processing. Medical codes are based on the date of service and not processing date. We are requesting an enhancement for at least all of the 837 transactions to include the PACDR to edit medical codes sets (ICD...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Delivered

Add Event Processor Status to Dashboard on Web Console

Please add an item to the Environmental Health section of the dashboard on the Web console for the Event Processors. This new section would show the status of the Event Processors, how many there are, and the status. Similar to the status of Conne...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Delivered

Enable FIPS mode support to IBM Native PGP

My companies security and compliance required FIPS enabled for payload encryption for specific data classifications and exchanging data with specific US government entities. My company wanted to leverage IBM Native PGP instead of a 3rd party exter...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add SOCKS Support for All SSP Protocols

This would be useful in our environment so that we have the ability to refresh hardware at a more rapid pace without having to worry about maintaining IP addresses in the refresh or notify our customers that we are moving to new infrastructure. Ou...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered