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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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Support Alma 8

support Alma8 for AWS deployments and open source deployments
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Allow Pass-Through User Mapping option for " Password Or Key " Authentication Method in SFTP policies

We want to be able to select on the secure proxy configuration manager on SFTP policies the User Mapping option " Pass-Through " when the required Authentication Method selected is " Password Or Key ". This option is available for " Password ", " ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Native support for DLP to manage sensible data

Customer would like to have in SSP a feature to connect with their DLP solution based on ICAP protocol to avoid that sensible data be sent outside of their organization without permission.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

IBM Sterling Rest Services should support BASIC and STANDARD authstyles at a time in the same instance

LIMITATION: In IBM Sterling Order Management 9.4 and 9.5, Currently If we want to use Rest Services in one deployment we have to choose either of the one authstyles 'BASIC' or 'STANDARD' only. Customer has deployed SMCFS on 2 WAS instances to serv...
almost 7 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Not under consideration

Update CDZ by Control Center Director

Possibility to update CDZ through Control Center Director
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Not under consideration

Connect Direct UNIX: msgfile.cfg and idx

It doesn't make sense to me that the msgfile.cfg located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name> is a hard link to the one located in cdunix/ndm/cfg. Why not just have all of the cfg files located in cdunix/ndm/cfg/<node_name>? Obviously, you'd ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

Order Hub is not having a screen to view/edit reservation details like application console.

Order Hub does not have a screen to view/modify the reservation details for GIV users like application console. This can be viewed from inventory summary screen in application console by clicking on the 'Reservations' icon – Request for enhancemen...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

Config Hub - Protocol - Connection Description feature to Company/Trading Partner resources/connections view under the each Customer.

Customers/B2Bi SaaS wants to see more information like connection description along with connection name under the Connections section in Config Hub for each Config Hub Customer. Currently we have the only fields/columns available with the names a...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has limit of 3 IP addresses

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has a limit of only 3 IP addresses. Whereas ConnectDirect on linux or windows systems have larger limit and also altcomm parameter to specify alternate IP addresses. This limits HP NonStop connecting to a unix/wind...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration