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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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Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Add AS2 message-id for Correlation search

Currently we can not used the Inbound / Outbound AS2 message ID to search in IBM Sterling Integrator. In any scenario when AS2 partner face issues in connectivity, primary key provided them is AS2 message ID. Please enable search using AS2 Message ID
27 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Direct connector from ICC to ServiceNow

ICC generates SNMP traps and an intermediate tool captures it and then generates ticket on ServiceNow. This gives less control on how the tickets are generated on an incident management tool. Also, if there is a direct connector, we may also get r...
27 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Submitted

Maintenance mode in ICC

Maintenance mode in ICC - currently we do have a functionality to put servers in some maintenance mode ,so that it does not create alerts at that point but logs every other detail . At present, we either have to turn down the server or shut down I...
27 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted

PDF adapter command to choose type of PDF generation (including PDF/A3A ISO-19005-3)

With Invoicing electronic format becoming mandatory standardized in the EEC, being able to generate a PDF/A3A format would definitely help all European companies developments.
27 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Support OIDC/Oauth 2.0 in SSP

Modern authentication requirements need support for OIDC/Oauth 2.0 alongside the existing SAML 2.0 support. Please extend SSP to provide this flavor of access as well.
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 4 Future consideration

Limit number of alerts for same BP failure

We have set up an alert that sends an email for a Business Process that is processed with errors. At a given time, there may be thousands of failures for the same BP, and we do not want to receive emails for each and every failure of the same kind.
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 5 Under review