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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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I would like to see control center monitor use active directory as an authenticator vs just SQL authentication when connecting to a MSSQL database

For security reasons we don't use SQL Authentication for local accounts. We use domain service accounts. We would like to see the CC adopt this option for authentication.
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Not under consideration

Observability Dashboard for Synchronization Jobs Performance

Monitoring Dashboard of IV processes. Supply, Demand, Reservation Async Jobs Performance Dashboard with KPIs like Average Processing Time, Max on Daily/Weekly/Monthly Periods, and Adherence to SLAs.For example, avg time to complete Supply Sync cal...
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Generate Notifications From IBM Secure Proxy on Expiring Certificates

When using Connect: Direct and Secure Proxy, all the Partner specific certificates currently get checked into IBM Secure Proxy Trust Store, if there are Partner certificates up for expiry there is no functionality available in SSP to notify on th...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Allowing to Administrator Sponsor Users to Edit the Same Activity

We would like to request that two Sponsor administrator users have the ability to edit the same activity. Currently unless you are the one who creates or "saves" the activity it is not possible to edit. This has proven difficult for version contro...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
6 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Improve the search filter options that are available when resubmitting and resending documents in the InFlight application

The search filters are limited when "Input files to restart" and "Output files to resent" are chosen. These search filter conditions need to be the same as the filter conditions that appear in the "Search for Documents" section.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Functionality already exists

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

OOTB Antivirus scan using ICAP

When using ICAP integration on SSP there are a lot of files with the .unscanned renaming due to the volume of the files or any other of the highly possible scenarios in which the file is sent to the backend without being scanned. Due to the type o...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration