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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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Be able to pass mixed case variables from NDM process to IRXJCL

We do a lot of work with File Agent where all the files are in OMVS zFS filesystems. We have the need to use a RUN TASK to call IRXJCL and pass the file directory & name especially when the combined name is longer than 72 characters and can't ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

More Flexibility Needed for Control Center Web Console time out.

I know that in Control Center 6.1.3, the maximum amount of time for the Web console is 30 minutes. Please add an enhancement that gives administrators more flexibility in expanding this beyond 30 minutes. This is needed for our shop because the Ba...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Delivered

Customization of Rename File text box in myFilegateway.

MyFilegateway Upload tab is having "Rename File as" option textbox , with which partners can rename the file at the time of uploading. We are looking for an option to disable the rename file text box. It would be good if we have a property driven ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Delivered

APIs should publish events that can be consumed and actions can be taken upon

IV APIs should publish events e.g. On successful creation of reservation or on partial reservation so that an action can be taken upon that event.
about 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

APIs should be idempotent

In distributed application architecture, if the APIs are not idempotent duplicate data issues can occur. e.g. duplicate requests for Reservation blocks inventory for other customers.
about 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication Server High Availability Scenario Failover Mechanism Needs

Hi, We would like to extend the options of failover scenarios in SSP-SEAS integration. In high available configuration, where there are two active SEAS, when one of the servers are down, the other takes over the others responsibilities. However,...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

SSP support on Windows Server 2016

Hi We are upgrading all our Windows OS server to 2016 in our environment, and we noticed the SSP doesnt support Windows server 2016. Can this request be looked into urgently. Thanks Sathish
about 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Delivered

Make sourceTs and updatedTs fields visible in Get Supply and Get Demand API Responses

As an integration consultant, I need to be able to see when the supply and demand for an item was last updated so I can confirm whether or not information is flowing from external systems to IV. The sourceTs and updatedTs will help when performanc...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Allow a read-only user to make changes to read-write fields, but not Commit

We have clients like EGA, where we're seeing they have hundreds of read-only users, and only a few read-write users entrusted to commit (save changes and export). Read-only users are mostly maintenance stakeholders part of the workflow process -- ...
about 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered

HIPAA 831 type tree - to be added to to Healthcare pack v10.1

We have a business requirement for HIPAA 5010 - 831 transctions. Looks like thats available in supply chain pack. Request to add the same to Healthcare pack. We are @ Healthcare Packv10.1 ITX v9.01IIBv10.x Thanks Ahad Mahamad
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Delivered