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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...
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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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    MFA support for SFG via OpenID connect or SAML

    Currently SFG does not support MFA. We would like to have MFA support via OpenID connect or SAML due to security reasons in our company. Suggested workaround via Secured Jump Host is not compliant to our internal regulations.
    9 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Submitted

    Ability to send SNMP trap data to different SNMP hosts

    A client/user of our IBM Control Center environment has asked that we send snmp trap data for file alerts to their splunk server for reporting. What I've noticed is that if we do this, any other alerts with snmp trap selected in actions will also ...
    1 day ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Week numbering in date picker - delivery date

    Our B2B customer uses Week numbering and would like to see week numbers alongside dates in the datepicker, eg when setting requested delivery date. They use ISO 8601 - weeks numbered 1-53, weeks running Monday-Sunday (rather than Sunday to Saturday)
    2 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    Align Retention of Filter/Search Criteria Functionality Across Code List/Mapping/Transformations/Connections for Consistent Behavior

    Currently when using the Search Bar in Code List/Mapping/Transformations, the functionality is inconsistent across all three. Search in Mapping (partial or full name search) then click into any of the maps that come up to review it.  To go ba...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Under review

    We need item level (active/inactive) Flag, to decide whether to publish inventory or not. This flag should be incorporated into both active sync and full sync queries.

    We are currently facing issue with Inventory Snapshot publishing for items that we do not wants to publish the inventory details. These items may have been de-activated or it's not part of active catalog or due to compliance issue we do not wants ...
    3 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

    Request Oauth 2.0 Modern Authentication support for SMTP Send Adaptor

    Our business, KraftHeinz, legacy SMTP Relay will be deprecated by the end of 2026. We need to transition to Modern Authentication for SMTP prior to that.
    3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Submitted

    Show the filename in the Job report within Configuration Hub

    When troubleshooting or reviewing completed jobs, it would be helpful to see the filename that was used for the job. The "Job specifics report" could show the filename.
    25 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Submitted

    Externalizing initparm.cfg configuration Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

    In IBM Connect:Direct containerized deployments running on OpenShift, the initparm.cfg file is generated exclusively during the installation phase and is not designed for dynamic updates. As a result, configuring or modifying integrations with clo...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

    Improvements to the B2B API framework

    B2Bi customers are making large time, resource, and budget investments in automation. These automation projects rely heavily on the B2Bi API framework. The current API framework and documentation do not lend itself to large scale automation projec...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

    Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

    As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
    3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

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