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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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More columns in transaction view

It would be helpful when monitoring to be able to choose more columns than 10.
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Future consideration

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

Saving preferences on transaction view

Possibility to save preferences such as: Keeping columns in the view Number of transactions on a page Number of attributes in attribute view As it is now, it all resets everytime the log is left and revisited.
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

More sorting choices available

It would be appreciated to be able to choose more possibilities to sort. There is also a bit of an inconsistency of how a group is sorted. The list of transactions are sorted descending but within a group the sorting is ascending.
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration