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Communication Protocols

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AS4 flow resiliency updates

Enhancements: Alerting mechanism to identify if the messages stuck in Kafka queue. Increase the number of retries to other Network if there are any network failure's causing the messages stuck in Kafka queue.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Elliptic curves for SSL connection for Https/AS2 connectivity

Currently, there is no option to restrict or use only required Elliptic curves for the SSL connection for https/AS2 connectivity. For Example: Below are the Elliptic curves secp192r1 – {1.2.840.10045.3.1.1} secp224r1 – {1.3.132.0.33} secp256r1 – {...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Display Partner Communication Details under Inflight Event Details Section

Currently, We can only see Partner protocol profile ID and communication POD Process ID details at the final delivery step ( Protocol Started Step in Inflight ) while delivering the outbound document to trading partner. Since these are Internal in...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

SFTP known host key fetch through Legacy InFlight instead of POD

Currently we do not have option to fetch known host key while setting up SFTP profile on Legacy InFlight although it is mandatory to import it to profile in order to connect to partner's SFTP. Right now procedure we follow is to fetch the knowhost...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

ADD MQ headers to GIODE JMS connector

Currently JMS connector on GIODE supports only 25 header values. We have a potential customer who sends JMS headers with 40 values which caused issues while coming into GIODE via JMS connector. IBM is not able to read additional header values. Act...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Legacy Inflight to have search option based on User ID for protocols (FTP/SFTP/AS2ID/HTTP/OFTP2(SSID/SFID))

We have request from high volume customers like VF Services/Ceva etc requesting for change in the protocol relationship as the partner has moved to other service provider/change in the protocol url's or moving from one protocol to other like (FTP ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

SFTP Protocol Strict Host Key = 0

Whirlpool is requesting IBM SCBN be able to configure their SFTP connection without strict host key requirement. This is part of their High Availability Architecture plan. All of their vendors except IBM is able to meet this requirement.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Allow a password to be sent with the User ID on the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe)

On the SCBN VAN Connect:Direct (mainframe), allow a password to be sent with the User ID since client authentication is not supported. The absence of a password violates security best practices.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration