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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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Request enhancement to failover characteristic for B2B Integrator/SFG

We would like to request an enhancement of the failover characteristic of the product. During functional testing we have observed delays of up to an hour in re-establishing normal operations of the UI and scheduler in the surviving nodes. The test...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Delivered

Enabling Partner Onboarding In Global Mailbox When One Of The Data Center Is Completely Down

In Global Mailbox with multiple data centers, if one of the data centers is completely down(including SFG, GM wlp, Cassandra), we are unable to create/update any new partners
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Delivered

Docker Image for Sterling Connect:Direct

Almost all IBM integration tools (Datapower,IIB, MQ, WAS) has docker image. I got to know there is no Docker image for Connect:Direct.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 14 Delivered

File Agent doesn’t support Certificate-based authentication, it will be difficult for us to manage the passwords on File Agent authentications.

We have around 35,000 Connect:Direct nodes and File Agents will be deployed across all the stores. We have a password policy where the passwords are going to expire every 90 days, Maintenance of these many nodes will be a tedious task. Switching t...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Control Center Rule Correlation

Two of the things we utilize Control Center for is SLC notification and processes that do not end successfully. We have some transmissions that are monitored on SLCs that are contractual (sla). We do get an alert if the sla transmission has not st...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 4 Delivered

Native support for Azure Blob Storage acess

For supportability it would be great to see native support added for Azure Blob Storage along with the current plan to support S3
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 6 Delivered

PEM - API Method to retrieve Trading Partner Standard User account information

Client has an audit requirement to generate a report of all PEM users (Sponsors, Trading Partner Administrators, and Trading Partner Standard Users). There are REST API methods to get Sponsor and Trading Partner Admin accounts, but not Trading Par...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 3 Delivered

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication)

Add support for SNI (Server Name Indication) within the communication the appropriate communication protocols. It is an extension of the TLS protocol. For information on SI, please see: http://www.networking4all.com/en/ssl+certificates/faq/server+...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 17 Delivered

SSH User Identity Key > 2,048 bit

Partner ask to generate a auth key of 4,096-bit or larger, however Sterling menu doesn't allow for any key size except 1,024, 1,536 or 2,048. Also, there does not appear to be a documented and supported method to generate a key pair using a comman...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered

Rest API to trigger a Business Process

Trigger a Business Process via API with 2 modes: 1- Synchronous : Wait for the Business Process Execution 2- Asynchronous: Trigger the BP and get a return code (BP started successfully)
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Delivered