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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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IBM Control Center Able to Monitor and Alert IBM B2B Integrator Perimeter Server

One of the main Brazilian bank would appreciate that feature to monitor the Perimeter Servers of them B2B Integrator many instances
over 4 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Functionality already exists

Any configuration information stored in the CCM database must be encrypted

Requirement stated by customer that all configured objects in the database must be encrypted. This includes audit information and any information containing IPs, host names and passwords. Whole-disk encryption, SAN storage encryption, and database...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 2 Future consideration

Customer requires complete encryption of all objects stored at rest in B2Bi/SFG database including trading partner information

Requirement has been stated by customer that all columns in the B2Bi/SFG database be encrypted, beyond what is hashed (passwords) and at-rest encryption (documents). This would include more recent sensitive information such as user names, IPs and ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Future consideration

Need to support configuration for all protocols regarding forward proxies

A customer with whom I am working requires forward proxies for all protocols they use, in this case FTPS, SFTP and HTTPS. Their expectation is that Secure Proxy support these protocols both as reverse and forward proxies.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Planned for future release

Allow for periods in Provisional Facts in SFG

In Sterling File Gateway, when elected to use a provisional fact in a Routing Channel Template, it does not all for periods in the value you can input when creating the routing channel. This causes the need for a custom business process and compli...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Ver display on IUI panel

If there are multiple instances of different NDM ver running, it will be easier to identify if the IUI panel has ver displayed. Attached screenshot will give the idea of what i meant. In this the right-side box has ver hardcoded. if there is a pan...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support MQ HA for configuring JMS Topic

The MQ infrastructure at our organisation is set up in a HA topology where we have multiple queue managers. The queue manager name is not provided to applications wanting to connect to the queues with the expectation that they use the default queu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Update the EBICS HAC schema to comply with standard

the xml schema used in EBICS HAC is ISO20022 pain.002.001.05 when it should be pain.002.001.03 according to the 2.5 version of the standard. Even more, in version 3.0 is not updated to .05 and still remains .03 (need to be doubled checked though)
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Planned for future release

Improved Program Reporting from PEM

It's very difficult to know the status of our program even at the most basic level. I'm looking for some basic numbers such as: Number off Invites How many have started? How many have done nothing? How many are totally complete with the p...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

IfFlight: provide URL and/or AS2 name in details for inbound documents (specifically when no config)

When we received a no config error, we had no idea WHO sent the data. I did assume it was AS2, but could not narrow down where it came from to notify partner the ISA/GS ID was incorrect. A day later, I received the information from support - and w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration