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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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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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Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support storage of private ssh key in HSM

Mastercard's File Transfer System uses SSP, CM and SEAS for SFTP Server. The current configuration does not comply with our policy that requires SSH private key to be stored in a Hardware Security Module (HSM). These keys are configured in CM UI a...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

SSP FIPS mode enable should work with HSM device

Sterling Secure proxy communication failing with SSL error when we enable FIFS mode and SSL certs are stored under HSM device. below is the SSL error: Short Text => TLS/SSL handshake failure, reason=Handshake failure , GSK codes (init/validate)...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Under review

User based data limit policy

When the same data limit policy is applied to various users, the inbound traffic byte counter is the sum of all the users included in the policy. So if one of them is reaching the limit. All the users of the policy are affected. Please, conside...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Needs more information

Azure Blob Storage Service Principal

Request that IBM update the object store client adapter to support authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would support configuring...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Planned for future release

Support the update to routing rules during file activity

B2Bi documentation states that Mailbox Routing Rules or FIle Gateway Routing Channels should not be updated during periods of file activity. The consequences of ignoring this are not specified in any detail in the documentation. https://www.ibm.co...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Provide QueueWatch Audit data

As part of our effort to more thoroughly track usage in SBI, we need to be able to audit QueueWatch usage. In IBM case TS013772150, we were informed that this functionality does not exist.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

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