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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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encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Query that can provide a list of mailboxes that are not a part of any delete services

This report would provide us insight on mailboxes that need to be added to delete services. During onboards, there could be mistakes on adding mailboxes to delete services, and that way we know to update them.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

We need an ability to create user name upto 60characters and email address upto 68 characters in B2Bi

We have a requirement to onboardi-ng partners with the user name upto 60 chars and email address up to 68 chars, and currently we noticed b2bi only allows 36chars in the user name field and 64chars in the email address field, and so can you provid...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity Documentation Reference Links for B2BI 5.2.x/6.0.3/6.1.0: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.svcs_adpts_m_z....
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

Select multiple trust cert with search functionality

In SSP Dashboard, Netmap > Inbound Node[HTTP based protocol] > Security>CA Certificates/Trusted Root While selecting multiple certificates it becomes very difficult to select multiple cert and find to unselect certificate. It would be con...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Planned for future release

compression at the HTTP layer

It would be good to have option like (something like compress="True") to compress the file at HTTP layer, to achieve this do we have any parameter set any of the HTTP Services/adapter level at HTTP Begin Session service/HTTP Client Method service ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Not under consideration

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

SI to capture trading partner’s SSL cert automatically

In SI, for HTTPS connections, the trading partner’s SSL certs are required to be checked into SI beforehand. And whenever their partner upgrades their certs, client will need to do manually update SI. Since client has many trading partners, this b...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas

We need to create a report listing the certificates configured in secure proxy for the netmaps and seas so we can identify what needs to be updated when a specific certificate expires and to validate all of the certificates have been renewed succe...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Planned for future release