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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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Develop SEAS to intelligently query for IPs that come from a subnet and allow them in if that subnet is in an LDAP attribute

Why useful? Useful because these days a lot of trading partners are coming from cloud environments that aren't front-ended by one (or a handful) IP address. Who benefits? Anyone who desires to whitelist IPs as a means of authentication or just as ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Hide UniqueID Token in GET parameter for MyFilegateway

Situation: Using MyFilegateaway the uniqueId token is passed as parameters in the URL in GET/POST Request Methods Example: https://mft-nala-val.roche.com/myfilegateway/MyFGUpload.do?uniqueId=-1ccob8032vnyn This value could be used accessing to Bro...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Not under consideration

DB tool usability enhancements

The DB query tool that comes with OMoC 2.0 has multiple usability issues. 1) on running a query, do not scroll the query entry window to the top, but leave the cursor where it is in the window 2) I should not need to add a space at the end of each...
over 4 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to administer division partners and LOB users via the PEM Portal UI

Currently, Divisions can be created via the portal UI, however, the assigning/unassigning of partners to divisions and the assigning/unassigning of LOB users can currently only be done via API calls. It would be much easier if this could be done v...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Customised monitoring dashboard views

The current SST monitoring dashboards are limited to filtering on queues per session - there is no way to save a view or create a dedicated link to quickly access the same view again (user setting not persisted). Where technical members may reacti...
9 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

ICC Ability To Monitor Cassandra, Zookeeper, Reaper, MQ for Global Mailbox

If we could see application statuses within ICC like we do for Secure Proxy & Global Mailbox (SFG/GM) applications, it would be much easier to troubleshoot issues. ICC should be a true monitoring tool for Global Mailbox, which would include di...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Future consideration

Automated way to copy exported SSL conf file from CM to Engine

We use a common SSL certificate for the CM, engine and Jetty web server communications. We export the SSL certificate store file from the CM (via ./configureCmSsl.sh -e file=<export file>) and store that in a location on the server the CM ru...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

Please put an enhancement for IBM Control Center Monitor to pull through Java logs that are recorded in logfiles for B2BI and CD onto the ICCM Dashboard for more transparency of logfiles that these applications are encountering

A client requested for this enhancement before they can purchase the IBM Control Center.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration