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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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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...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Functionality already exists

File size for config Hub map tester should be increased beyond 50MB size limit, customer-Breakthrough beverage facing lot of failures

Our SCBN customer-Breakthrough beverage Corp facing lot of failures for processing Invoice to their partners as their file size is going beyond 50MB, same issue has been seen multiple times with other customers as well.File size for config Hub map...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Snap-To-Grid Mode

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

Copy/Paste Entire Objects/Dialogs/Tasks (keeping mappings, etc. exactly the same)

Need to be able to copy and paste within PEM.
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager 0 Not under consideration

Enable Transfer of Entire USS Directory via C:D z/OS

Sending Unix files on Z via C:D is tedious at best. I'd like for Connect:Direct to at least be on par with FTP functionality-wise if I'm going to try to convince users that it's in fact the better choice. C:D needs to be able to transfer an entire...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support segmentation inventory from IV

Product to consume inventory from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not enough. This will support in reservation and sourcing to fulfill from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not present. Also partial reservation and alloc...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Script to suppress the alerts during/after the maintenance hours

We CCM running on our environment and monitoring SFG/B2Bi/SEAS/CD components. During weekend maintenance/Disaster recovery Test we need to suppress/clear the alerts in CCM Panel manually. It will be easy if we can schedule a job run a script to cl...

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