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Communication Protocols

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Increase max lenght for Direct Connection input fields - InFlight Protocol setups

We have situations where Trading Partners want to host direct connections like FTP, FTPs, and SFTP. Currently InFlight limits the user name field to 25 characters. We are now encountering partners that insist on using user names longer than this l...
over 5 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

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

Enable client certificate authentication configuration in Inflight for HTTPs Setup

HTTPs allows both Basic Authentication and Client certificate authentication.Inability of setting up client certificate authentication in SCBN for HTTPs is upsetting the client who prefers to have one connection setup against multiple , potentiall...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 4 Not under consideration

AS2 Error: BPN_EDIINTBuild - Cannot find a class that corresponds to Oid 2.5.4.97; please see oid.map for details

IBM customers and partners widely use AS2 communication protocol and some of the customers/partners have the SSL/Signing/Encryption certificate with Oid parameters which our current SCBN doesn't support due to which it becomes very difficult to co...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

Automatic option for connectivity test with Trading partners.

Currently in order to do any connectivity testing with trading partners we have to do series of tasks on SCBN. Current Activities/ Challenges which we have: 1. We need to create InFlight FTP relationships. 2. We need to configure BPN send/receiv...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Functionality already exists

Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...