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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...
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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SFTP Protocol Strict Host Key = 0

Whirlpool is requesting IBM SCBN be able to configure their SFTP connection without strict host key requirement. This is part of their High Availability Architecture plan. All of their vendors except IBM is able to meet this requirement.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Allow SSP engine certificate to be configured through configureEngineSsl.sh directly

The configureEngineSsl.sh script only supports importing configuration exported from CM. Typically CM and SSP engines are installed on different machines in different network zones. The certificates will be put on the servers directly. It's a lot ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Control Center SLC Holiday Processing

Please add an enhancement for Control Center that will help manage SLC alerting during holidays. Currently, Control Center calendars do not reflect holidays. As a result, the operators may have to handle multiple slc alerts due to processes not ru...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Map incoming XML workbook to Several Worksheets

We are attempting to use one Excel sheet and map data from an incoming xml file to several worksheets. XML_to_Excel.mms attempts to put data in 'Required Information' worksheet and also 'Insurance advances' worksheet using two output cards. When w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Future consideration

Control logging of SSP CM monitoring messages

Messages are written to the auditlog.xml file (ACPT037I, ACPT040I and ACPT038I), as well as the sspengine.log file for the same activity. It is possible to reduce the frequency of these messages, but only to once every 10 minutes. It would be grea...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Secure Connections - Key/Certificate Management

Currently with Control Center a keystore and a truststore have to be setup in order to allow secure connections. Once both have been setup, the configCC.bat or configCC.sh has to be run in order to tell the Control Center application the path loca...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Request Control Center to support Korean file name displayed correctly.

Korean file name transfer between ConnectDirect works well. And Korean file names are displayed correctly in the Connect:Direct log. However, Korean file names are not displayed correctly in the Control Center. Please refer to Case TS002022528 ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Future consideration

add column community in the report

Add the column community in the report Sterling File Gateway Route Detail by Producer Report and Sterling File Gateway Route Detail by Consumer Report
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Control Center 6.1+ Control the number of processes, events, and alerts that are display when viewing All servers

In a busy MFT environment, it is very easy for the number of events, processes, and event alerts to reach 10,000. If a curious user clicks on "View all servers", the number of processes, events, and alerts can show to be over 10,000 for all server...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 1 Future consideration

Enhance authentication options for SSPCM API's

The SSPCM requires a username/password to be authenticated, requiring a static (or semi-static) password. This contravenes many organisations security policies designed to protect access. An alternate method of authentication would dismiss the r...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration