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Idea is to display relevant IBM SBCN VAN transfer information on our internal website, enabling continuous monitoring and helping the operations team promptly identify and resolve issues.

We currently log in to the IBM SBCN VAN to monitor file transfers and investigate any issues that arise. While this process has served us well, we aim to bring key VAN activity and status information to our internal website. This will give our ope...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking Needs more information

Dub3 : Outbound Search should display Mailslot ID

Mailslot NAME display helps in narrowing down the issues much faster. Analyse the impact of issues and customer notification.
22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Commerce-Center Needs more information

Key Creation During Onboarding

Problem Statement During SSP User onboarding, users and administrators currently need to generate SSH key pairs in the SSH KeyStore before configuring User. This creates additional operational steps. Common challenges include: Manual key generatio...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Needs more information

Multi-Key Support Per User

Problem Statement Currently, SSP user onboarding and authentication workflows can become operationally challenging when users require multiple SSH keys for different applications, systems, automation tools, or rotation activities. Many enterprise ...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability Needs more information

User identity (certificate/key) renewal is complex

user identity key renewal activity is very complex, whenever we renewal SSH keys renewal, we need to share SSH keys with Third parties and then update at the Partner level which is too much time taking. Is there any other better approach where we ...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration Needs more information

Allow myFG 2.0 to be hosted on different URIs

Some customers use custom URIs when exposing myFilegateway so that they can better brand the experience for their customers and potentially have different portals for different sets of users. Currently the my File Gateway 2.0 has the URI hardcoded...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other Needs more information

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability Needs more information

Parity of local and global mailboxes in the B2B REST API

We want to include Global Mailboxes, list, and content extract, just like Local Mailboxes, as part of the B2B REST API. The aim is to enable 1touch and IBM IGDC to integrate with the IBM Sterling solution while monitoring all data passing through ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs Needs more information

Support initparm.cfg using RuntimeDirectory and PIDFile per systemd service definition

best practice for RHEL is to use SELinux and systemd for services; and use standard /run/appname folder for runtime files, as specified in service file service RunTimeDirectory statement. /run/* path is writable under default SELinux policies for ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration Needs more information

To add file Status Column in Document Tracking (Delivered/Undelivered)

Requesting to add a new column in the Document Tracking which can show the undeliverable status of the file when it fails due to connection issues. As of now, even when the files are in undeliverable, the status is not reflected in the Document tr...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) Needs more information