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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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Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

B2Bi application should automatically sync with the system time during DST change, without application re-start

Currently, we are re-cycling the B2B SI application in-order to sync the application time with system time during Daylight Savings (DST). Customer is not happy to bounce the application for time change during DST, re-cyling the application is impa...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity Documentation Reference Links for B2BI 5.2.x/6.0.3/6.1.0: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.svcs_adpts_m_z....

PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table is too short

Error in logs indicating data truncation on PRINCIPAL column in ACT_SESSION table. ERROR 000000000000 GLOBAL_SCOPE DmiVisEventWarehouseQueue.Worker.executeStatementsAsExecutor had a SQL exception from pstmnt: PreparedStatementHelper: SQL: UPDATE A...

Verify ControllerWorkflow is functioning properly in 6.0.2.1 with regard to force terminate

ControllerWorkflow.sh doesn't seem to be force terminating a BP when it is in a halting or active state when the BP shows it is in wait queue.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect

Installation Manager Documentation

IM should be simple to install and easy to use. Since the UI cannot be used for the install there needs to be explicit instructions on how to Install/Upgrade Sterling Integrator, including sizing and recommended location, considering the old way w...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Is a defect

MQ connection pooling druing put sesions in WS MQ suite adapters in SBI

Prior to 5.2 6..3 (when were in 5.2 1) the MQ put sessions were using connection pool After the upgrade to 5.2.6;3 under the WS MQ suite service adapters - the MQ Put session connection are established & teared down on per message basis This c...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Is a defect

CoC 19.1 SBC extensibility workbench opened in Firefox 60.x forces installation of jsLib that is incompatible with Firefox 60.x

Environment Info CoC 19.1 devtoolkit Problem Statement When following the documented CoC instructions to enable extensibiility workbench for SBC at the following link, trying to use Firefox 60.x forces the installation of jsLib add-on that is in...
almost 5 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Is a defect

Create Better SFG Rebranding Documentation

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS4TGX_2.2.0/com.ibm.help.sfg_sys_admin.doc/sfg_rebranding.html This document could use some serious expansion and updating. It would also be nice if some of the basic re-branding could be handled wi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Is a defect