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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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A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Provide Client Machine Certificate instead of User Certificate

When we download certificate from SST, it's is a User certificate. To install this certificate on user's machine, user need to install is manually one by one. We need steps on how to download client machine certificate, So that we can directly dep...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

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.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Command Server 1 Functionality already exists

Wildcard Copy to and from Cloud Object Stores

With many customers now moving to the cloud, sending receiving multiple files at a time from the object store is a mandatory requirement for many of our customers and without this support, they are preferring using S3 copy / data sync.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Check the Write permission on Destination Mainframe Dataset without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target zOS Dataset on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Ec...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Check the Write permission on Destination folder without submitting COPY statement

Hi Team, We are trying out a way if we can check permission on target folder on SNODE, before doing actual transfer. Like we do 'Echo Test" to test if the NDM connectivity is good between 2 NDM nodes. If we can have option in NDM to do 'Echo" test...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem

Enable certificate based authentication for CD Tandem. cert auth is only available in unix and windows version. Our orgs have a large tandem nodes that are critical to organisation.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release