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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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Metrics API enhancement

We are attempting to add metrics data to an internal application for monitoring the sterling environment and currently the REST api does not contain any endpoints that would allow us access to the data tha currently backs the Active Alerts, Transf...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Remote profile routing channel 'connection

When using a remote profile, to route a file to a remote server using ssh keys. It would be great to allow something that would take a routing channel name then the producer mailbox path and allow parsing so it can match the directory in the remot...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Need MailClientAdapter for Exchange Web Service

Customers who have been using SI B2B Mail Client Adapter to receive mail from Exchange Online using the POP3 protocol will no longer be able to use POP or IMAP due to a change in the company's security policy. (And Microsoft itself) So, as an alte...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

Handling XML data Using WTX map

We have a WTX translation map from xml to Legacy format. The source xml type tree has been created with the XSD schema. Currently the map was working fine with the xml data because it is matching with type tree structure. However the client is say...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

A script to identify & package a Launcher/CS/API core and dependant libraries, allowing for remote core analysis on Linux

In order to analyse a Linux core file on IBM lab machines, we need to gather & package all shared libs (included OS) from the system. A script that finds out all loaded DLLs from the core and packages them is needed. We don't have such a scrip...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Utilities 0 Not under consideration

SSH Support Through SSP As A Forward Proxy

During recent joint discussions a gap in the SSP protocol stack has been identified whereby outbound SSH connections (i.e. supporting SFTP and SCP) are not supported. In order to enforce a More Secure to Less Secure network, whereby the network ho...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Display SNode User ID (SNODEID) value in log fetched via SCC or CD API

Information about used SNODEID (SNode User ID) option is present in log displayed in CD Requested and "direct.exe" CLI but it is not displayed in SCC or via CD API (JAI). Please extend SCC and CD API to display SNODEID option usage.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 0 Future consideration

Need an ICC report that returns counts of file transfers and total byte counts for a given interval.

I need a report where 1. I can specify a date interval for the report.2. The report should give me an option for detail or summary.3. The detail would give me a list with 4 columns showing the date, the producer partner name, #of files failed or r...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

Snap-To-Grid Mode

Add a snap-to-grid mode that can be turned on and off to make objects easier to align.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration