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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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A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 1 Functionality already exists

ITX Design Studio should show functions while doing the mapping in ITX window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Allow passwords longer than 28 characters for LDAP users

The password field on the SBI dashboard login page is restricted to a maximum of 28 characters. However external users who are using LDAP for authentication can have passwords longer than this value, which makes it impossible for these users to lo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Add System Acknowledgment status generated off an outbound communication protocol result

In line with the current System Acknowledgment solution around sending a message back for an outbound transaction with the translation status (SYSACK1) and processing a functional Acknowledgement back from a trading partner for the corresponding o...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Verify ControllerWorkflow is functioning properly in 6.0.2.1 with regard to force terminate

ControllerWorkflow.sh doesn't seem to be force terminating a BP when it is in a halting or active state when the BP shows it is in wait queue.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Is a defect

Provide Client Machine Certificate instead of User Certificate

When we download certificate from SST, it's is a User certificate. To install this certificate on user's machine, user need to install is manually one by one. We need steps on how to download client machine certificate, So that we can directly dep...
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action

The Partner Registration Approval should trigger an action to perform user customized actions like Rest API to push the partner details to customer LDAP or customer custom tables for auditing or other purposes. As SSO implementation is getting int...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

Enhance current usage of DTK to allow develpers testers to run multiple DTKs in parallel

Currently when you deploy the DTK you can only work against a single docker image. Often our developers are working on more than one project or indeed have platforms on different releases (eq QA, Integration). In order to develop/test they need to...
about 3 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Create a separate jdbc pool for opscmd

Issue: Customer noticed that SBI's opscmd.sh script duplicates the creation of every connection pools from SBI to the Database. Root Cause Analysis: When queueDepth command (using opscmd script) is invoked, it creates another copy of connection po...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Future consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration