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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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Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Add support for JN Union HSM devices

This will allow secure use of the platform in China.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy 0 Not under consideration

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration

Need to Check changes done to Schedule of business process

Schedule of the business process is getting disabled , so need to know how can we check time when the process was disabled and if any ID.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow customization of LDAP ping "dummy" user

It is possible to configure a periodic "heartbeat" that checks the connection to External Auth, and it is also possible to have it attempt an LDAP bind (via the ea.ping.profile setting). However, when it does this LDAP bind, it uses a fake user ("...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Failure Handling

It would be better if we can -> had a failure handling option in PEM (like on fault in SI) -> call another activity from one activity Let us know, for more details
about 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

As IBM support feedback from TS011512648. Connect Direct does not have a file locking feature on the NAS level. This should be basic security features when it comes to moving of files. appreciate if this could be added in the future release of Connect Direct.

Basic Security feature comes from the OS level that should be handled also on Connect Direct.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration

ERROR - SAP Status Messages reporting incorrect information if one IDOC fails all IDOCs in batch will show failed

IBM SAP Status Messages are reporting inaccurate information. Example, 1000 IDOCs are sent outbound from SAP to IBM in a batch. 3 IDOCS fail with status 04 from IBM. IBM will send back that all 1000 IDOCs have failed with status 04 even though onl...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Container enhancement - Set group to 0

Currently the PEM container expects to be run as pemuser:pemgroup (1011:1011). The files and directories inside the image are owned by 1011:1011. When running on OpenShift, a random user id is used to run the container. This user is not able to ex...

Helm chart enhancement - Resources volume

Currently the PEM helm chart only supports one way to supply the DB driver jar to the application: 1. Statically provisioned PV bound to the PVC created by the helm chart A related application, B2Bi, has a helm chart that provides additional optio...