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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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SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Automatic Proactive Notifications

Automatic Proactive Notifications – If we have failure to VANs, we require the functionality to email a notification. Also, to have this cover inbound data processing errors on data received from other VANs. What is the problem we are trying to so...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 1 Needs more information

SCBN B2Bi SaaS Essentials (VAN) - CICS - Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen.

Ability to resend mailbags from the MBER screen. The MBER will show expired mailbags - mailbags that haven't been acknowledged by another VAN within the time window. Van Admin then contacts the other VAN to confirm if they received and processed t...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Value-Added Network (VAN) 2 Needs more information

Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute

Alert notification needed whenever errors occur in BP FileGatewayMailboxRoute
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 2 Needs more information

Ability to retrieve original payload from B2B logs

The content downloaded from transaction log is modified. We would like to be able to download the actual data that was received.
5 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 2 Needs more information

Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Needs more information

update to EDIFACT and ANSI-X12 schemas

Request update to EDIFACT and ANSI-X12 schemas in TN which were released in and after 2018. For more question please contact our customer
6 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 2 Needs more information

Version 4 support for EDIFACT

Required by one our customers to finalize the integration with them and avoid servicing with a 3rd party vendor. If you have more question please get in contact with the custosmer
6 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 2 Needs more information

Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Needs more information

Enhance SSH Remote Profile to support both Key AND Password Authentication

Currently, SSH remote profile, admins can configure either key or password authentication. Requesting to support Key AND Password Authentication.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Needs more information