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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...
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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Need to be able to patch B2Bi with an Oracle SSL connection

Once B2Bi is installed you can configure an Oracle SSL connection per these steps. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.sb2bi_install_upgrade_526.doc/_shared_files/SI_ConfigDataTraffEncySSL_Unix.html However in...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

Native support for Azure Blob Storage acess

For supportability it would be great to see native support added for Azure Blob Storage along with the current plan to support S3
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 6 Delivered

Cognos using ICC issued certificate

We are required to use certificates issued by Boeing Certificate Authority and not the certificate that is generated by ICC.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Improve diagnostic accuracy of Secure+ error messages

We often get Secure+ error messages (prefix CSPA) that don’t necessarily indicate a Secure+ issue. This makes it difficult to monitor for errors. The error messages that have caused us the most difficulty are: CSPA202E SSL handshake failure, re...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Provision to Choose Perimeter Server in SSH KEY GRABBER and SSL Certificate GRABBER in UI and Exposing this service via REST API

No description provided
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

Capture correct HTTP response document and display it back in INFLIGHT portal for the HTTP Protocol connections

Need a small enhancement from GIODE protocol squad to properly capture correct HTTP response document and display it back in INFLIGHT portal . This is critical for Berkshire Project with a go-live date of 03/29/2022.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Delivered

Adapter/Service for interfacing with Apache Kafka

Clients are looking at Kafka for event management and asking if we will support this type of interface in SB2Bi
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

Certificate-based authentication support for Connect:Direct RESTful API

Connect:Direct Java API supports certificate-based authentication. IBM Sterling Control Center also can use certificate-based authentication to connect and manage Connect:Direct settings. However latest version of RESTful API supports only user/pa...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

Passing B2Bi Process data to SCC

SCC currently can import a single item from B2Bi Process Data. However, with the use of an Xpath statement multiple process data items can be concatenated into a single string item with optional delimiters or other markers. Sadly, SCC does not hav...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Delivered

Ability to Scan Files for Viruses in the DMZ before arrival in Secure Zone

Need a facility to contact a server via ICAP to scan files (similar to how QuickFile) works. This can be achieved by installing SSP perimeter servers on the virus server in its zone and have SSP engines leverage a persistent connection between the...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered