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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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Add zOS SPOE information to Control Center Director

Access to the SPOE (Single Point of Entry) zOS table via Control Center Director would allow the team to at least be able to view the existing entries and assist in possible trouble shooting of issues involved that may require an update to that ta...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Failed Outbound exchanges should be retried

A previous RFE requested a solution to retry outbound AS4 one way push exchange where the failure was caused by a HTTP 30xm 40x or 50x error. This was implemented and is working well. This has saved us considerable time and expense by not requirin...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Connect Direct Adapter auto recovery

Case TS003985405 was raised to report that the Sterling B2B Integrator Connect Direct Server Adapter does not auto restart if the database connection is broken This leads to file transfer failures and requires a manual restart of the adapter If th...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Additional REST services

In our project, we have augmented the Sterling REST services with some other capabilities which we wrote as JAX-RS/Jersey REST services, hosted in a WAR in an HTTP Adapter. It would be good if you would consider in the roadmap providing the functi...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Operating System version to be collected by ICC and displayed.

Currently Control Center shows the Operating system as UNIX, Windows etc. It would be more beneficial if Control Center could display the actual OS version , eg Windows 2012, RedHat 6.8.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

High availability for Connect Direct Manager running in a sysplex.

Hi,We are looking for a high availability solution for Connect Direct Manager. We currently have one CD manager running in a sysplex and are at risk of this task going down and not restarting as there is no fallback for this component. We would li...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

support SSL for HTTP notification

Currently the production offer a functionnality to generate http notification about transfert event (file sended, file receipted - start/end). The XML notification is pushed to an URL using the HTTP protocol. The message only push metadata of the ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Security 1 Planned for future release

Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours. We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg bein...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for p...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration