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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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SCC does not capture SFG Custom Events

Hi, We have installed ICC 6.1 and we are creating a portal kind of monitoring stuff to monitor all SFG files in ICC Console ( File Monitor). We have created custom events to track additional data in SFG. There are some fields we want to capture fr...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Office 365 Message Encryption/Decryption

Request is for Microsoft Office Message Encryption/Decryption functionality for SFG. This will be required where 3rd party Producers/Consumers are using OME as their preferred encryption tool.
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Not under consideration

ITXA - Need Utility to Perform Performance Testing

We are needing some type of Performance Testing Utility that users can use to test for Memory issues, Responses when running multiple instances of a job.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

Have C:D log the expiration date of certificates it receives

Today, when C:D calls out to a remote server, it logs some details about the certificate it received. It would be nice if it also logged the expiration date. This would allow us to write, say, a Perl script to scan the logs once a day looking for ...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Allow for a “System Use Notification” on login page.

Currently, in the 6.3 version of Control Center under Properties and the Welcome Message, a system notification message can be added. It would be nice to be able to something similar with Sterling File Gateway/B2B Integrator.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

ITX lacks full and proper support for X12 Real, specifically interchangeable support exponential real values.

We've run into instance where JSON data has large enough values that some converted over to exponential passed into ITX X12 based maps using the office X12 Type Trees provided by IBM/HCL the translation was successful. However, the output of 2.107...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Create APIs endpoint to the Analytics data sources

Lot of calculated fields exists in those data sources that we use today in our data tracking, Anlytics module is cumbersome and reachable by only people with MRO access, we would prefer to stick to the company standard for reporting which is Power...
8 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Not under consideration

Revive Health Check Utility for Sterling Integrator

We had been widely using the Health Check Utility to examine the health and performance of the application on a weekly basis. After the utility was removed from recent versions, we are having difficulty validating the application on a routine basi...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

MS GRAPH API Protocol for B2Bi Mail Client Service Adaptor

We have one integration where we are using B2B Mail Client Adapter to fetch mails and perform operations. Now Exchange servers from where we are downloading mails are moving to Cloud. They want us to use protocol like MS graph API or Exchange Web ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

B2BAC purge for custom B2BI processing events written back to B2BAC MEIGUI Events table

IBM's preferred delivery partner delivered a solution to write certain B2Bi processing events back into the MEIGUI database, EVENTS table so that they can be displayed within the UI of B2BAC. Screen shot attached. There are linked back on the B2BA...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release