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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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Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Connect Direct Z/OS Password-less Sign-On : Use certificate authentication for the CD session. CD currently supports this for the API connection (e.g. port 1363) and exploring if this could be added for the server connection (i.e. port 1364). The goal would be to use the certificate Common Name as the user ID as we do for the API connection or expand to allow other sources for the user ID – Jobname, SPOE, in-line SIGNON, batch user ID, etc. – and define order of precedence.

Issue Description: Client has security initiative to remove passwords being exposed in jobs. If there is a sign on ID used it is ignored if there is a password less ID and defaults to the job card ID. If client removes password from the sign-on ca...

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 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0

ITX - Extend validation exception handling for messages with a known structure BUT an unknown (as more recent) version

Currently ITX FinPay routing map identifies a messages based on the tag <FIToFICstmrCdtTrf> in Document and not based on message name and its version (pacs.008.001.08). This causes a problem when a message based on a more recent version is r...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Planned for future release

Remote profile routing channel 'connection

When using a remote profile, to route a file to a remote server using ssh keys. It would be great to allow something that would take a routing channel name then the producer mailbox path and allow parsing so it can match the directory in the remot...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

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 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

PEPPOL Invoice/Application Response generated via XML validation report using Generic Status option

For PEPPOL Implementation, the Invoice/Application response are generated based on the outcome of the validation service report. The error message from the report is used to put in the Response message back to partner. In current flow, we cannot u...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Validation Service Report should be sent as ERN to Customer

Similar to ERN report we have today in SCBN, the new validation services used for PEPPOL flow do generate error report on failure after running via open library/Schematron. But, these error reports are not sent as ERN. We don't have option to sele...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Logging is needed WHO and WHEN downloaded a file from Sterling Dashboard or FileGateway

When debuging file flows it is useful to see how the file looked before the transformation and how it looks after transformations. Due to compliance reasons on production systems it is necessary to see WHO and WHEN downloaded the file and viewed i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 2 Future consideration