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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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File Agent: sort capability missing to guarantee files sequence

FA doesn't provide a mechanism to process the files located in a specific folder in a specific order (i.e. file sorted by timestamp, name, size ). There are scenarios where the sequence the Producer Application generates the files must be respecte...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 1 Not under consideration

Supoprt for HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)

What version of Sterling Connect:Direct Linux/Windows will support Hadoop HDFS? Do you have any release date? I found similar thread at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=65228 but I didn't see any updates. T...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Add JDBC importer to Design Studio(Eclipse) or Database interface Designer

The only way to import a typetree for JDBC adapter, is to call an external java command line com.hcl.hip.tools.adapterdriver.TreeImporter for the adapter com.hcl.hip.adapters.m4jdbc. This is not a user friendly solution.
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Validation failure message box

Currently it is possible to add validation to dialogs in tasks. When a partner does not complete/answer accurately there is no way to specifically tell them what to fix. There is a red X next to the field which is in violation, but not what they a...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On for PEM

Support Single Sign On for PEM to allow integration with identity management systems. This critical to comply with security requirements and verify user/partner identity. From a user experience, this is needed to provide a more seamless client/par...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

clean old backup file tool

The product should provide a tool to clean old file generated in backup directory following the use of setupfiles.sh. this tool should have option to delete only : file older than <period> file older than <date> files not from the last...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requirement...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add Description field to API for Windows netmap add

The API in Connect:Direct Web Services does not allow for a 'Description' field when using the API for netmap adds. For Windows, it requires a separate API to accomplish this. The API for UNIX netmap adds has the Description field, so having the f...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Connect:Direct for HPE Nonstop Platform

It was mentioned in HPE NonStop Forum that TLSv1.3 will be coming out later 2019 year. It was also mentioned by HPE that TLSv1.0 is a degraded security protocol and that HPE NonStop Client Applications running on X86 and Itanium Platform need to m...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 6 Future consideration