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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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Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

During SPE Enveloping service ISA & GS control number not getting incremented when a file has both Good and Bad transaction sets.

Issue Description:- We have integrated ITX with ITXA and calling Envelopes from ITXA by using SPE adapter in ITX rule. In the EDI Message, If we have a good transaction set as well as bad transaction set. The envelope is not being added to the EDI...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

A new WARN() function, which would work similar to FAIL()

I propose a new function WARN(), which would work in a similar way to FAIL() and end the map with a specific warning code.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Monitoring SSP authorization through SCC

Hi Team, One of my client has a requirement to monitor and generate a report which gives the details of users who initiated a connection to SSP.It should capture both successful and unsuccessful attempts along with the username. Currently, the onl...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to Pause and Un-Pause CD nodes in SCC using runbatch or API

Sterling Control Center should have an sbility to Pause and Un-Pause Connect Direct nodes in SCC using runbatch script and/or using API
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 1 Functionality already exists

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Registration link to close after registering

After registration the link is not closing. Instead it times out and confusing people since the page is still opened.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 3 Functionality already exists

Support for HTTP CONNECT method

Support for the CONNECT method would help facilitate the use of Secure Proxy as a more generic HTTP proxy. Our particular use case, we need to connect to cloud based object storage from from an on-prem IBM Connect:Direct node, but is not currently...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Ability to mass download maps, codelists, envelopes, comm setups and routing rules for periodic backup

The customer wants the ability to download their assets—maps, envelopes, codelists, communication setups, and routing rules—from our SaaS platform via APIs. This will allow them to maintain a local backup of latest copies of these assets.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration