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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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InFlight 2.0 "Is Empty" search filter option

InFlight 2.0 filters would be better if for some fields we could use not only the options currently available (Precise match or “contains” and their negative form) but also the “Is Empty” option
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 0 Submitted

provide access to opensearch-query-workbench.

Query work beanch access would help to write queries and analyze application errors more efficiently. This will allow us to quickly filter and investigate specific errors, correlate issues, and troubleshoot problems more effectively, as writing qu...
about 3 hours ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Outbound UNG Envelopes must contain the fields 0052 (Message Version Number) and 0054 (Message Release Number) as it is mandatory for some of the critical trading partners like Ford, FCSD

Any supplier of Ford using EDIFACT standard must include it in the Outbound DESADV to Ford.
about 9 hours ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Request SEAS and SSP to support deployment with OpenShift restricted-v2 SCC

Per our security posture, we are required to run all workloads under the most restrictive SCC possible, which is OpenShift's built-in restricted-v2 SCC.
4 days ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Submitted

Capability to add multiple folders through PCM for processing

This is a capability that is already available via Sterling FileGateway.  Need PCM to have the same capability to allow us to build multiple folders for one partner (like FileGateway) that allows you to process files dropped by customers in d...

DB Password to be fetched from Password Safe like HarshiCorp

Sterling Integrator should retrieve the database password dynamically from a credential vault solution such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk. Password rotation performed in the vault should be transparent to the application, without requiring servic...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Submitted

External Key Vault configuration

Background & Customer Context: Enterprise clients running or planning to run containerized IBM Sterling workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift (such as Bradesco) can be required by corporate governance to centralize credentials in external vaults (...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services 6.4 Suport for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x

Customer is creating a new environment and it's intent is to have the latest version of CDWS and OS. Customer is using RHEL 10.2 but the documentatio (below) states that the version supported is up do 9.x. Customer needs that CDWS supports at leas...

SFTP client LIST service functionality inconsistent with SFTP client GET service

Currently SFTP client LIST service gets interrupted by recover.bpml process if it goes in waiting_on_io state. This is incosistent with other SFTP client services like GET.  recover.bpml does not interrupt the SFTP client GET service even if ...

The 'Event Driven Notification', configured by dmivisibility.bp_event_trigger.X=eventPreFilter,xPathExpression,bpname,userId. Request xPathExpression to support comma.

Recently, the customer experienced an issue with their Sterling File Gateway (SFG) environment. A file that was expected to be routed and delivered ultimately resulted in an FG_0455 event code for a routes determining reason. As a result, the inte...
4 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted