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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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The user’s current password must be validated while changing challenge questions and response phrases.

The user’s current password must be validated while changing challenge questions and response phrases. Authentication is required for changing a user's challenge and response phrases.
4 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 0 Submitted

Description of available Analytics Data Sources

I would like to have available a 'cheat sheet' that describes what data all of the various Analytics Data Sources (Live Export Details, Snapshot Inventory History, etc.) include and what they are meant to capture. We are trying to encourage our us...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1

Password cannot be obscured in CSR Create property file

Hi Team, We are using HSM to create certificates. While creating a CSR, if I provide the store password as OBSCURED, I am getting the following error. However, if I use a normal password, I do not encounter this error. Please note that we are not ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow Pass-Through User Mapping option for " Password Or Key " Authentication Method in SFTP policies

We want to be able to select on the secure proxy configuration manager on SFTP policies the User Mapping option " Pass-Through " when the required Authentication Method selected is " Password Or Key ". This option is available for " Password ", " ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity

SFTP Client Adapter “ResponseTimeout” setting does not have the desired effect causing hung BP activity Documentation Reference Links for B2BI 5.2.x/6.0.3/6.1.0: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_5.2.0/com.ibm.help.svcs_adpts_m_z....

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

EBICS APIs for Server Configurations

APIs for all EBICS server configurations, like partner, user, offer and contract. New EBICS functionalities, like BTF Services and Custom Order Services, are being delivered with their corresponding API's. However, there are no API's yet for exist...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Add possibility to use separate client TLS certificate for each Global Mailbox server when connecting to Cassandra and Zookeeper

Due to security compliance reasons please add possibility to use separate client TLS certificate for each Global Mailbox server when connecting to Cassandra and Zookeeper
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

Native support for DLP to manage sensible data

Customer would like to have in SSP a feature to connect with their DLP solution based on ICAP protocol to avoid that sensible data be sent outside of their organization without permission.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

Add Certificate Authentication capability to the CD Web Services REST API web interface (swagger).

CD Web Services supports certificate authentication for the web UI and also for REST API calls, but the provided web UI interface for testing REST API (swagger, path is cdws-doc/signOn.html) does not. This makes it difficult to design and test sol...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration