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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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podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

UI Updates to show where object is used

There are many objects in the system that have interdependencies. It would be very useful to have the ability to see where an object is in use. Examples: SSH Profile - show SFG partners that reference the profileHost Key - show SSH Profiles that u...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Threshold configuration for MFRA adapter

Sterling B2B introduced Total Business Process Queue Depth Threshold as part of 5.2.6.1, which helped to minimise overloading of Sterling ( internal queue) and thereby help achieve an overall better performance. Currently application through MFRA ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Selecting Active Directory Group for authentication

Instead of selecting each user from LDAP and give access. If we have option to select the Active Directory Group(low_pre_access_group, high_pre_access_group) from LDAP and assign to access. It will be helpful and reduce task of adding every new us...
8 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 2 Needs more information

Make ITX functions TimeZone and DST aware

Currently when doing computations with timestamps across DST boundaries the functions (tealted to date/time) don't account for DST switches. This makes the result invalid. So in our case adding or substracting days from a timestamp doesn't take in...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Not under consideration

EDD calculation should factor carrier holidays and weekends

Currently there is no capability to set Carrier holidays and weekend schedule that can be factored in EDD calculation. Padding-up days to regular schedule isn't a great option. If holidays and weekends) are not accounted for, the delivery date cal...
almost 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Server Inventory Report should contain all fields related to node

Server Inventory report does contain all the field. Need enhancement to reporting capability to include all fields in the report as this is required to gather details and automate the inventory validation.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 4 Planned for future release

SSO SAML assertion and OIDC support and MFA implementation

SAML assertion and OIDC protocols implemented in IBM B2Bi so we can switch from use of LDAP to SSO setup for user authentication. Also we need to implement MFA for user authentication since the application is approved for use with restricted file ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

SEAS Validating ISAM Token

Currently SEAS has the ability to integrate with IBM product ISAM ( IBM security access manager ) and authenticate the userid and password provided by SSP. In this case SEAS generates SSO Token after successful authentication. Customer requiremen...
about 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Addition of RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm to IBM Sterling Integrator B2B

This singing algorithm was requested by a partner that we trade EDI messages with. They provided us with their new AS2 OCES3 certificate, which used RSASSA-PSS as the signing algorithm. What resulted was that we were able to transmit file but we n...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration