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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

Use alias/CNAME for the DNS/IP address in a CD netmap

We have some Connect Direct UNIX for Linux nodes running on AWS ec2 instances. These CD nodes run behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is ran, it is possible for the DNS and IPs of the load balancer may change. Our AWS egineer implemented...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 7 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

ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT Event raised for Transfer IN and Transfer OUT

Hi team, Currently, ON_REFUND_OR_SETTLEMENT event is raised only when charge type CHARE (+/-) is created in the system. Event is not raised specifically for Transfer In and Transfer Out type transactions. In case of return receipt approval after e...
10 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

SFG Utlization and Consumption KPI's

We are trying to explore consumption KPI's of the environment. At a high level, how to obtain correlation between file transfers volume/size with over all resources consumption ? - Build trend visualizations showing weekly consumption - cpu/memory...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the product without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. https://www.ibm.com/support/kno...

Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) Support

Many enterprises have Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) as their standard. It would be ideal to add support for OEL OS, so customers can deploy the products (SSP CM/SSP Engine/SSP PS) without any if and buts we have today in our support statement. htt...

Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

Can we include the "Last Reviewed By" and/or "Last updated By" be included in the Item View Grid?

Can we include the "Last Reviewed By" and/or "Last updated By" be included in the Item View Grid?
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration