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Introduce SASL Support in B2Bi

Integration use case with ITX and the Kafka adapter. Confulence is pushing SASL Support. SASL provides higher level security options to our customers
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Unable to create the connect direct partner using custom protocol from B2Bi REST API

We are trying to create connect direct partner via custom protocol using B2BI rest api. We are unable to add below values which have comma(,) in middle while creating the partner in custom extensions RemoteDCB:(RECFM=FB,LRECL=160) RemoteDISP:(NEW,...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Delivered

Add Multi-Factor Authentication on Mailbox for Mail Process

The basic authentication of Microsoft is about to be decommissioned and most will be switching to multi-factor authentication. This is a request for a multi-factor authentication support for B2B Mail Client Adapter which connects to Office 365 ser...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 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 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 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 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Upgrade Cassandra to 4.0 for Global Mailbox in order to support auditlogs

that would be useful for auditing purposes. PCI-DSS requirements require to audit systems access. All customers working in financial industry would benefit from this.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

Global Mailbox backend file replication SSH settings (ciphers, hmacs, group exchanges) currently are not configurable, even in 6.1

QUALYS scans are revealing that the out-of-box settings utilized CBC ciphers and SHA1 group-exchanges. These should be configurable settings for the TCP 33001 port to secure with CTR and/or GCM ciphers as well as SHA2/256 group exchanges.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

Allow Legal Characters in SSH Remote Profile Fields (Sterling File Gateway)

There are several characters that are legal in the SSH protocol, but are not allowed in the SFG UI and B2B API's. Remote Hostname: ~!@#$%^&*()_+=[]{}|\:’;”<>,?/ and SPACE Remote Host Username: !#%^&*()+{}[]|’;”<>? and SPACE Rem...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Delivered

Enable FIPS mode support to IBM Native PGP

My companies security and compliance required FIPS enabled for payload encryption for specific data classifications and exchanging data with specific US government entities. My company wanted to leverage IBM Native PGP instead of a 3rd party exter...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Support for Linux 5.x kernels

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) >= 1.18.0 provisions the worker nodes with a Ubuntu running 5.x kernels (e.g. 5.4.0-1034-azure) and the deployment of sfg:6.1.0.0 and sfg:6.1.0.1 containers fail because Linux 5.* is not included in *.Linux.VERSIO...