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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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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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    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.
    over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

    We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

    We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

    Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

    PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
    over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

    InFlight - Add Protocol Process ID as an addable column on search page

    Adding Protocol Process ID as a visible, searchable field in the results page would allow isolation of traffic by connection for easier troubleshooting. This would be beneficial for both clients and support, and seems like it should be easy to imp...
    almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Functionality already exists

    Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

    Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025
    9 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

    Provide monitoring of Up/Down status for PEM components (PEM,PR,PP,PCM)

    Partner Engagement Manager is a core component of a modernized Sterling stack and provides critical partner facing interfaces (both external and internal) that should be monitored. CCM should provide out of the box monitoring for UP/DOWN status an...
    about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Planned for future release

    Migrate all files from an old SI Documents to new repository

    When SI property jdbcService.document_dir is updated, new files are stored on the new location, but existing files remain on the previously configured location. There is no functionality to migrate data from old to new location. This is an enhance...
    5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

    Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

    In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
    almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

    Request for improvement of the CONNECT DIRECT manual contents so that incompatibility information items are clearly indicated

    Our client plans to upgrade Connect:Direcr for z/OS from V6.1 to V6.4 in 2025 and we need to provide them with information about incompatibilities from V6.4 to V6.1. We checked the manual of IBM Connect:Direct for z/OS 6.4 Documentaion, but there ...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

    Add Conection to ISERIES Servers

    Hello, We need to connect Steling control Center Director to ISERIES Servers to manage the configurations of netmap, secure+, Userfile. Actually its not possible with this software (SCCDirector). We are managing more thant 1500 servers with connec...
    9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

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