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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...
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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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Freeze/Fix Column names on Comparison Matrix

In the Comparison Matrix Widget, when users Add certain columns to view in the matrix, when you scroll to the right, you loose visibility of what each row of information is. can the field names be fixed to the left side of the window pane so as th...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Move the 'Previous Item' and 'Item state' icon to the right hand side of the screen

I personally think it would be more useful to have the 'previous item' sitting next to the 'next item' rather than to the far left of the screen, especially as more companies are moving toward the wider single monitor. I find I'm constantly scanni...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Inactivity user account control

Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

Update a watched directory location for Integrated File Agent

For stand alone File Agent, a user can update/correct a watched directory location. This seems like a basic function and yet it doesn't exist for Integrated File Agent. If a watched directory location has to be updated for Integrated File Agent, i...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

EBICS order type - automatically splitting and processing of SEPA containers

We have a requirement to split the SEPA XML containers for customers from Ebics order payload file and process them individually
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 4 Future consideration

IDoc Control Record must contain tag EDI_DC40_U for Foreign Language to be in readable format within the SAP Environment

Changing the Control Record EDI_DC40__ (__ equals two trailing spaces) to EDI_DC40_U (one space and a U). Which when exported to a single file the output is okay, but the very first field in the record is 300, so the output = "EDI_DC40_U300" the f...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add a feature to pass the failed response from PP to PEM.

Hi, Currently, in PEM under the tab "Wait for Provisioning" when the control passes from PEM to PP to provision the resources in respective environments then in the PEM side we see a triangle draft kind of sign stating that the PP is working to cr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

prioritizing routing of files, File A routing needs to take precedence over File B. Routing channel template is complex and burdensome. provided by Matt Moder

File ABC and File XYZ both hit their respective mailboxes in SFG at the same time or close to it. Both files use the same routing rule/ template (and associated business processes) File XYZ routing needs to take precedence over File ABC Once File ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Future consideration

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