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Communication Protocols

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Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

SAP Adapter Configuration: Add Retry Limit and Retry time interval option

Currently, we have the option of Retry limit and time interval for FTP and SFTP protocols. As SAP Adapter in SCBN has been recently introduced, the option of retry limit and time interval is missing from Inflight setup screen. We should have this ...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Enable client certificate authentication configuration in Inflight for HTTPs Setup

HTTPs allows both Basic Authentication and Client certificate authentication.Inability of setting up client certificate authentication in SCBN for HTTPs is upsetting the client who prefers to have one connection setup against multiple , potentiall...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 4 Not under consideration

Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

AS2 Error: BPN_EDIINTBuild - Cannot find a class that corresponds to Oid 2.5.4.97; please see oid.map for details

IBM customers and partners widely use AS2 communication protocol and some of the customers/partners have the SSL/Signing/Encryption certificate with Oid parameters which our current SCBN doesn't support due to which it becomes very difficult to co...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

Automatic option for connectivity test with Trading partners.

Currently in order to do any connectivity testing with trading partners we have to do series of tasks on SCBN. Current Activities/ Challenges which we have: 1. We need to create InFlight FTP relationships. 2. We need to configure BPN send/re...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Functionality already exists

Chrysler Event Driven FTP - Request to maintain logs for 120 days on "SKS9O001" mailslot

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over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration