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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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CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

Reason codes in Important events tab under order line details page should be visible after re-shiping the order line

After reshipping the order line, we are unable to see the reason codes on the order line details page under Important Events tab. We wnated to know how these important events gets populated. Please refer IBM PMR#: TS016070217 - thanks, Avnish
7 months ago in OMS - Call Center 1 Functionality already exists

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

DEVOPS deployment to LINUX servers

Devops has been around for a while, with automated testing and deployment. WTX should provide tool to auto deploy (similar to map build). This would take the PC tested map and allow it to be deployed to a server for further testing in a LINUX envi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Make component rules validation optional, just as it is the case with restriction lists

In WTX, when running a map, there's an option to avoid validating restriction lists. Having the same option for component rules could be useful in some cases.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Functionality already exists

Enable myFileGateway multi-factor authentication. Different fields be added for token and password

Enable different fields to be added in the Login's Page for myFilegateway. Ex: Username: Password: Token: We need to receive an extra field during login authentication on myFileGateway, as a random Token for example. Using pre-login Exit, User ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Allow optional ODBC connection strings to allow DB connection encryption

My Database team would like to have all connections to the database encrypted, preferably at the application level, using the below: encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; It is currently not possible to supply this information using the DB Wi...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

Wild Card Searches in Call Center

In the Call Center UI, we'd like to be able to complete wild card searches for many or all of the fields. For example, if I wanted to search for all orders that are from an IBM email address I could search *IBM.com. This would bring up all orders ...
about 1 year ago in OMS - Call Center 9 Functionality already exists

SCC does not capture SFG Custom Events

Hi, We have installed ICC 6.1 and we are creating a portal kind of monitoring stuff to monitor all SFG files in ICC Console ( File Monitor). We have created custom events to track additional data in SFG. There are some fields we want to capture fr...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Need milliseconds in Source timestamp in IV

Currently in IV we have field "sourceTs" :"2021-02-24T18:42:01Z" but it does not contain milliseconds in it.
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists