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

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
over 4 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future 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...
10 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

automapper should also work with same input/output types

It is a common pattern to work twice on a output card, e.g.:- when the output should also include summarized amounts of several output records that need to be built/calculated first- when the header should announce how many records will follow Now...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Autmoapper from output to output

The automapper is very useful, but only does input to output. In some cases, we need to prepare mapping in one output card, and enrich it later in a following output card. Currently, it can be done but needs some cards copy and moving, and this wo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

enhanced PARSE function

In order to use the new PARSE function as a replacement for the old RUN(submap) constructs, the PARSE function should have similar behavior as RUN(submap). This essentially requires 2 enhancements: 1.) We need to pass arguments to PARSE like "-F21...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 4 Not under consideration

PIV Card Support for Sterling MFT/B2B Products

PIV was initially introduced by HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12), in August of 2004. However, it is just now that agencies are being mandated to comply with this directive. The first required delivery date that we know of for ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Future consideration

Allow user to override Change History for Code List versions

Currently, the number of codes is saved in "Change History" for each version. However, there are times when several versions are created for testing purposes. Having the ability to put a meaningful description (like we do for maps) would be very u...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration