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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...

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Enhanced control over the "reviewed" radio button in the B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI enables users to view the current status of inbound and outbound file processing to target systems. As part of managing a production live service, we have encountered some issues whereby files have been incorrectly ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

API for Engine Config Push

Provide API to push configuration to engines. Same functionality as the "Push Config" button on the Monitoring->Engine Status (All) page on the UI.
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Support Open API 3.0 specifications int he OpenAPI typetree importer

As of now the OpenAPI importer only support swagger 2.0 json format. However, as the OpenApi V3 in json/yaml become more and more common it would be very usefull for ITX to support it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Not under consideration

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0

SFTP change setting authentication order (password, publickey) in the Two-factor authentication

In Sterling B2B Integrator both the SFTP Server and SFTP Client have Two-factor authentication (publickey, password) are configured to have the authentication sequence fixed as password authentication after public key authentication. However, for ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support for HTTP CONNECT method

Support for the CONNECT method would help facilitate the use of Secure Proxy as a more generic HTTP proxy. Our particular use case, we need to connect to cloud based object storage from from an on-prem IBM Connect:Direct node, but is not currently...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Future consideration

Make timestamps for events more readable

Currently, when browsing Control Center for any given server, when viewing Processes, File Transfers, Alerts, Events, or Completed File Agent Activity, the timestamps for the last 24 hours of processes are given in how much time has passed since t...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Favorites Administration Menu

There are dozens of items on the Administration Menu, and I only use a fraction of them. Please allow users to mark, manage, and organize which pages of the Administration Menu they would like to be bookmarked. This list of favorite bookmarks can ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Show product version for servers added/monitored via OSA REST APIs

CCM/D currently shows the product version of monitored products i.e. SFG and C:D but it doesn't show for products monitored using the OSA i.e. SSP/SEAS. The OSA REST APIs should extract the version from the relevant events and make this available ...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Submitted

Provide additional filters for dashboard widgets

Operational users at large, especially global, customers want to be able to quickly see the status of their transfers and infrastructure for subsets of the whole. Whilst the file transfer widget supports filtering by server group this is not an op...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review