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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...
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...

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Updating string in init.parameters using API /api/v1/config/jobs/update/init-parms-text for single parameter like :osa.rest.url

The current API /api/v1/config/jobs/update/init-parms-text is useful only for entire init.param file to update but it would be good if the API can update single parameter like :osa.rest.url
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Application Console in other browsers than IE

Would it be possible to redesign Application Console so it is not required to use IE or Edge in IE compatibility? It would be nice to have it independent on browser
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

RestAPI support for Token Authentication rather than Basic Authentication

Looking for a future service availability to support Token Authentication, either with RestAPI or new one. As per my conversation with an IBM engineer on another troubleshooting call; support of Token Authentication by RestAPI is planned in future...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Properly document SEAS

There are many screens in SEAS UI that are not documented at all or fully.
over 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Provide scripting option to import, export, and deploy CDT xml files

The ssctl command can be used to upload and deploy customizations jar files. It would be nice to expand the functionality of this command to support the upload, download, import, export, and deployment of CDT xml files. This would enable automatio...
over 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0

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.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

Provide Client Machine Certificate instead of User Certificate

When we download certificate from SST, it's is a User certificate. To install this certificate on user's machine, user need to install is manually one by one. We need steps on how to download client machine certificate, So that we can directly dep...
over 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration