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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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Control Center Director -- Additional Node Upgrade Selection Options

Looking for additional/more robust functionality for additional scoping options when performing CDW and CDU upgrades through CCD. Something like the import a server list .csv , or to be able to create/populate a dynamic large group or list. Select...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Properly document SEAS

There are many screens in SEAS UI that are not documented at all or fully.
8 months 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...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

ITX should allow the functional map to be opened in the new window.

Right now, while doing mapping in ITXA, if we want to move from one functional map to another or to the main map or vice-versa. The new maps always open in the same window which makes it quite difficult to work with the mapping. especially when we...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 2 Not under consideration

ITX Design Studio should have an option to allow users to search based on FUNCTION name or what function does just like what we have in SI Mapper.

Right now, while doing the mapping in ITXA, we need to search the function manually and only by name. There is no search bar or anything which allows us to search based on the FUNCTION name or what FUNCTION does in ITXA. Add a search bar just in S...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

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 ...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

SI to capture trading partner’s SSL cert automatically

In SI, for HTTPS connections, the trading partner’s SSL certs are required to be checked into SI beforehand. And whenever their partner upgrades their certs, client will need to do manually update SI. Since client has many trading partners, this b...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Adding OR operator at the BPN rule Condition Level

In BPN tool while working with clients like Allied Bakeries where the rule counts increases for a single Trading partner. Allied Bakeries Trading partners like New York Bakery and COMPASS has multiple SAP internal account number like 20043,20044...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

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...