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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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Self-Service Mapping Logic Insights via Config Hub Chatbot

Provide customers direct access to Map Research through a chatbot in Config Hub. This allows users to ask questions and understand mapping logic interactively, reducing manual dependency on support teams and accelerating issue resolution.
15 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Needs more information

Customer Self-Service Control for Outbound TP Flows Enable/Disable

Provide customers with access to enable or disable outbound flows to TP. With this self-service capability, customers can manage the enable/disable actions on their own during CTE testing, eliminating the need to raise an IBM support case for thes...
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding / Other 1 Needs more information

GIODE Protocol Failures get tracked in doc tracker

VAN Clients uses GIODE for trading partner direct connections. When files gets failed while delivering to direct connection partners, visibility is missing in doc tracker application.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Needs more information

Ability to select TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 both for a node.

Currently Sterling Secure Proxy has the ability to support mixed mode of TLS 1.1,TLS 1.2. We have some partners who need to move to TLS 1.3 where as other continue to use TLS 1.2. Hence need the ability to select mixed mode of TLS 1.2,TLS1.3 .
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Needs more information

Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

Document Visibility : Option to see proof of delivery like MDN / X400 ADMD

This idea is useful for customers to track the files delivered to their partner without raising a support case. Customer could view themselves the proof of delivery such as MDN for AS2, MTS ID for X400 connections.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Needs more information

Replacing LDAP with ISVG

In our company we are replacing LDAP with other security, for IBM Sterling also we need to replace LDAP with ISVG, I raised case for this and told ISVG is not tested with IBM Sterling SEAS product, As we need to replace LDAP with ISGV, Could you p...

To be able to use same UOM code for multiple UOM Type (Eg: Quantity and Weight)

Currently OMoC is not able to define same UOM code for 2 different purposes. Eg: KGS / LBS for Weight and Quantity. This creates an issue and requires workaround to use different UOMs which would not be in sync with other systems. Hence leading to...
3 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Needs more information

Sterling to support Active Directory or Entra (security) group

Active Directory Security group help our organization to 1. process MACD especially Add and Remove members 2. managerial attestation (employees are removed from accessing Sterling as soon as he/she leaves the company. In our case, we have many int...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Add support in SEAS for configuring the number of failed password attempts before account lockout.

Currently, SEAS does not provide an option to set or customize the number of failed password attempts before locking an account. This limitation prevents administrators from enforcing organization-specific security policies.The requested enhanceme...
3 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information