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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 ITXA to be tested and certified with Oracle RAC and DB2 Purescale and Document the instructions for setting this up

This will enable customers to setup their Oracle in a Clustered environment with High Availability and Failover capabilities. Oher Products like Sterling B2B Integrator have documented and tested this with their Product which ITXA integrates with....
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

C:D UNIX silent update shall honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters

C:D UNIX silent update does not honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters when updating
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 7 Future consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Implement an audit history to show updates that are made to rules, data uploads, etc.

Useful to see when updates are made to rules, who makes the updates, what the old settings were, and what the new settings are.
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Hold being applied during OrderCreate with Status as resolved

When an order is created it is sent through logic to determine fraud. The logic sets the fraud hold as either created (active) or resolved (inactive). Sterling is not looking at the status of the hold and putting the hold in a created(active) stat...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Modifying dp-config-batch-import script

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ000000pF0EQAU/dpconfigbatchimport?language=en_US
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Data Power 1 Needs more information

SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

For Type records panel to add confirmation prompt to confirm saving or record should not get added with PF3

Currently, there is delimitation while we go to admin panel for adding new type record in NDM admin-> IT panel , if we bychance hit PF3 it creates an incomplete record. And to remediate this everytime either we have to update the wrongly create...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Future consideration

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service

Adding ACL parameters for AWS S3 PUT service for communication between cross account for S3 bucket. This is private S3 bucket.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release