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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...
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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PGP Partner Manager and PGP Sponsor Manager APIS

When automating the PGP workflow through PEM, I need to be able to create a PGP Partner. I also need to be able to access the current PGP Partners and Sponsors, as well as check for duplicates.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for Sterling File Gateway/B2B administrator interfaces using local authentication are not sufficient: Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are minimal and don’t comply with our securi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered

enhancement request to implement "ecdh-sha2-nistp256", "ecdh-sha2-nistp384", "ecdh-sha2-nistp521" algorithms

We have customers who use the NIST-ciphers for key exchange. The IBM support-Team told us, that Sterling Secure Proxy does not currently support the NIST key Exchange algorithms. So, we are asking for it to be implemented as soon as possible.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Delivered

Create RCT API

Would like to be able to create a routing channel template from PEM.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Be able to pass mixed case variables from NDM process to IRXJCL

We do a lot of work with File Agent where all the files are in OMVS zFS filesystems. We have the need to use a RUN TASK to call IRXJCL and pass the file directory & name especially when the combined name is longer than 72 characters and can't ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

Customization of Rename File text box in myFilegateway.

MyFilegateway Upload tab is having "Rename File as" option textbox , with which partners can rename the file at the time of uploading. We are looking for an option to disable the rename file text box. It would be good if we have a property driven ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Delivered

APIs should publish events that can be consumed and actions can be taken upon

IV APIs should publish events e.g. On successful creation of reservation or on partial reservation so that an action can be taken upon that event.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

APIs should be idempotent

In distributed application architecture, if the APIs are not idempotent duplicate data issues can occur. e.g. duplicate requests for Reservation blocks inventory for other customers.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Sterling External Authentication Server High Availability Scenario Failover Mechanism Needs

Hi, We would like to extend the options of failover scenarios in SSP-SEAS integration. In high available configuration, where there are two active SEAS, when one of the servers are down, the other takes over the others responsibilities. However,...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / 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...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Delivered