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Introduce SASL Support in B2Bi

Integration use case with ITX and the Kafka adapter. Confulence is pushing SASL Support. SASL provides higher level security options to our customers
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Support myfilegateway rebranding to work at Certified Containers on OpenShift

There are some documentation on how to rebrand and or customizing FileGateway and MyFilegateway, however they will not work at all on Certified Containers on OpenShift.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Using EC2 Profile to access AWS S3 buckets

SI 6.0.2 has an S3 client but mandates the use of access and secret keys to connect to AWS S3 buckets. It does not allow the use of Assume IAM role or EC2 profiles to access S3 . Assume IAM role/EC2 Profiles eliminate the need to store and maintai...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Allow multiple PGP decryption keys per community

We have a security requirement to use expiring PGP keys and change them every few years. Since Sterling only supports a single PGP key per community all of our trading partners have to change their jobs at the same time in order to use our new PGP...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

S3Client needs to support non-Amazon S3-compatible storage (Dell EMC, etc)

S3 client needs to be able to connect to non-Amazon S3 compatible storage to support systems whose security requirements only allow for private cloud storage.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

B2Bi should support the use of credentials from AWS EC2 instance profiles to enable access to AWS S3 buckets

B2B Integrator 6.0.1 provides an adapter for AWS S3. This adapter requires the use of AWS access keys (awss3.accesskey & awss3.secretkey) for access to S3 buckets. This is not a practical approach for automated batch processes since the AWS ac...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

support filesizes greater than 2GB in the http adapters

the http and related adapters are currently limited to 2 GB file sizes. As communication across https becomes more common, especially in the big data arena, the adapters need to support > 2GB. This is a limitation of java 1.7, thus a move to ja...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

Enhance the product to prevent large file transfers from failing when the TCP channel goes idle and gets closed due to inactivity.

When using the Aspera FASP capability in Connect Direct and SSP the TCP channel will go completely idle while the data is being transferred over the UDP channel. Production networks will detect this as an inactive sessions after tjust a few minute...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered