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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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List Connection Type in the Server List Menu - i.e. TCP, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, etc

The Server List currently displays many items. However, it doesn't currently provide the connection type such as TCP, TLS, TLS1.2, etc. One must go to the details of the server in order to see that. I believe having the connection type listed with...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Need to be able to search/filter by process name for SLCs

We just recently upgraded our Test Control Center environment to 6.3.0.1. We've noticed that we cannot search by process name in the SLCs section. Only SLC Name and Description are available. This was available in 6.2.0.1.
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Adding Custom Metadata to ICAP Request

We have a need to add additional custom headers to the ICAP request, as our Icap solution does support a header called x-metadata that meets ICAP protocol standard. For the extra header based on the documents it is when a file is unscanned you can...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Customize the mailbox creation for partner creation

Hi Team, We need ability to create few additional mailboxes once new partner creation on SFG. By default when a partner gets created, a root , inbox, archive mailboxes are created. We want below structure to be created when new partner is ad...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Remove true or false in extended field and partner group

Hi, in the extended fields there is partner group who is not consistent. When you not choose a field then it's empty, but if you choose and regret it you have to fill in true or false..
9 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

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

It's regarding the Product SPE or Config Center - Outbound Envelope Search with the filter Next Envelope

ConfigCenter Envelope Feature Existing: In Outbound Envelope Search scenario in Config Center, there is no option for searching outbound ST/GS envelope with the GS/ISA envelope as Next Envelope. Problem: We have worked on couple of cases where Cus...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Functionality already exists

Export and Import Secure Plus Parameters - Connect Direct UNIX and Connect Direct Windows

To my knowledge, there is not a method of exporting and importing Secure + parameters from one server to another.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 9 Future consideration

IBM Customer want to Download Bulk raw data in document tracking in a single attempt

Trading Partner wants to download a bulk of raw data in document tracking instead of downloading single transactions. Currently, in our tool, we have the only option to download single transcation I ll attach the screenshots
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 5 Functionality already exists