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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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Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Fix/Update Schedule inclusion timeframes to allow 12am/00:00

The current error message in the schedule exclusion section suggests that the 12:00am time frame should be used. Its not clear to the users and admins that the exclusion will not run at midnight. Updating the error message or allowing 12:00 would ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

File Extraction Notification

Within the global mailbox administrator, we can see in the extraction criteria tab of mailbox explorer the date/time that a file is extracted either by file delivery from SFG/GM or by the client pulling the file from the mailbox. Our issue is that...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 4 Future consideration

Needed feature to disable User Account and corresponding RestAPI

Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator Product, user account can be either edited or deleted, there is not option to "disable" it. There are business scenarios where business need to disable user account for certain period of time (days or months) a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Addition of columns in modern Inflight to reflect EDIFACT UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID

Hanon Systems is one of the most crucial customers on-boarded on SCBN with high volumes. Its extremely difficault for Hanon to check each and every EIDFACT message as they have dependency on UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID to reconcile the message...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration