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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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More authentication mechanisms can be used for Sterling Secure Proxy to be monitored by SCC

In the Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration related documents, only the user/Password authentication mechanism to be used for the SSP to be monitored by the SCC. However this method might not be a good option, since the password can't be hold for a...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Not under consideration

Pipe function in CD Win

In CD Unix, there is a very useful function - pipe, which we can use to handle some complex customer requirement by integrating with our customized program. But this function doesn't exist in CD Win. Request to enhance CD Win to provide this funct...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 1 Not under consideration

WDI support validation with AIX 7.2

We have WDI 3.3 running on AIX 7.1. We are planning to upgrade from AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2. We want to know if WDI 3.3 is supported in AIX 7.2.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 0 Not under consideration

CONNECT DIRECT WINDOWS CONNECTION WITH HNAS SYSTEMS

No description provided
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

CX Number of transfers requests in a mode

To have a MVS command (MODIFY to the CX address space) to query the number of requests in the CX which are in the mode we would specify in the command ('U' for the running requests for example).
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Adding 997 Ack status report on SPE which covers all status along with ExtraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 data fields

As per the existing BPN Reporting we have multiple options to pull reports including the Externalinfo1, Externainfo2 fields reports which covers the Ackstatus of the outbound files including the success, failures and overdue. I have attached a scr...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

A z/OS callable stub to aid program development and test.

Business use of programs developed internally or by third parties or IBM may require load and execution during IPL or program load. The problem is the acquired storage address may change which which present difficulties in setting needed debug SLI...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Adding ExtraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 onto SPE reports

I can see that the existing BPN Reports has options for running reports to get the ExteraInfo1 and ExtraInfo2 reports but the SPE Reporting has not been given with this option. We need this information as we are storing some of the important det...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

ConnectDirect to throw message when it gets hung.

If ConnectDirect is hung there is no way to tell if it is, there must be a heartbeat check to confirm if NDM is healthy.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CX/ZOS Possibility to swap the logging so it is not increasing indefinitely

In CX/ZOS, the SYSLOG and other ddnames are increasing indefinitely. If they are Sysouts, which is convenient, this can cause Spool problems. It would be great to have the possibility to swap them, as Z/OS offers it for the ddnames JESMSGLG and JE...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration