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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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Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Under review

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Needs more information

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Submitted

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
11 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
11 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Extend the length of the work code field in MROIO

We require a 2 character extension on the Work Code field from 2 digits to a 4 digit field. This would allow us more characters to add a two digit year designation for material that we track under the Nonbooked inventory returned work code. This i...
13 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Maximum Logins per user sessions settings configuration in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Adaptor level

Currently in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy configuration manager at adapter level there is configuration for Maximum Sessions. We are looking for configuration for Maximum Logins" per user.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists