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Have the ability to export an entire secret PGP keypair within B2Bi

As discussed with support in TS011052588 - it is not possible to export a secret keypair that has been imported/generated with Native PGP, into a format that can then be imported to use with other PGP software. When you export a secret key via the...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

On the Code (List) Info form, put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data fields much wider

Please put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data entry field as wide, or wider, than the size of the Description data entry field.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

To improve the messaging within MyFileGateway for the end user/customer

A user/customer uploaded a file in MFG and the file was uploaded when checking the Arrived File tab a message stating The system has not processed this file. Check back later and view the processing status using the file activity tab. This was the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow passwords longer than 28 characters for LDAP users

The password field on the SBI dashboard login page is restricted to a maximum of 28 characters. However external users who are using LDAP for authentication can have passwords longer than this value, which makes it impossible for these users to lo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

External Schedulers (TWS/Tidal) trigger business process capability in Sterling B2B Integrator

Sterling B2B integrator is tightly coupled with internal schedulers for triggering business process. This is creating a bottleneck for few business requirements which has dependency on external schedulers like TWS,Tidal.. Need capability in Sterli...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

SFG does not accept any host key except RSA and DSS. Also there should be a configuration mechanism for ciphers.

SFG does not support any client Known Host Key except RSA and DSS. Now a days a significant number of clients are using Open SSH which uses ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 as the primary cipher and unfortunately SFG does not support that. We have at least 10 ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Microsoft Deprecating IMAP and Basic Auth - Oct/2022

Microsoft is deprecating the IMAP and Basic Auth authentication for mailboxes from Oct/2022 - please see the link below. As of now the only options to connect to Office 365 mailboxes is using IMAP and Basic Auth - but that will not be available es...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Change basic status/return value of Business Process

We have a custom business process defined, where we are retrying the failed step, especially the SFTP connection failures We were able to retry the failed step, but the basic status stay as error, in turn causing the jobs triggered from TWS failed...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Under review