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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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List Connection Type in the Server List Menu - i.e. TCP, TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, etc

The Server List currently displays many items. However, it doesn't currently provide the connection type such as TCP, TLS, TLS1.2, etc. One must go to the details of the server in order to see that. I believe having the connection type listed with...
4 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Need to be able to search/filter by process name for SLCs

We just recently upgraded our Test Control Center environment to 6.3.0.1. We've noticed that we cannot search by process name in the SLCs section. Only SLC Name and Description are available. This was available in 6.2.0.1.
5 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Adding Custom Metadata to ICAP Request

We have a need to add additional custom headers to the ICAP request, as our Icap solution does support a header called x-metadata that meets ICAP protocol standard. For the extra header based on the documents it is when a file is unscanned you can...
5 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Customize the mailbox creation for partner creation

Hi Team, We need ability to create few additional mailboxes once new partner creation on SFG. By default when a partner gets created, a root , inbox, archive mailboxes are created. We want below structure to be created when new partner is ad...
5 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Submitted

provide WmTNStub package to IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

In webmethods cloud container a solution is available to seamlessly migrate Trading Network solutions developed on-prem to the cloud.it is possible to import all TN assets to B2B cloud and all integration server packages that have a dependency on ...
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Adapter names truncated on the SSPcm UI display

Hello - Adapter names in the SSP UI display are truncated in the display, TS019511000 for reference. it's across the board - netmap, policy, adapter names etc are truncted on the UI display. please provide an adjustable display to view the names c...
26 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Submitted

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Support Verification Of Payee (VOP) in EBICS

The EU Commission Instant Payment Regulation specifies that IBAN name verification, which must be carried out before the order is approved, must be mandatory for both SEPA credit transfers and real-time credit transfers, with a few exceptions. All...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Issue with chinese characters or Ukranian characters in Sterling Map Editor

Hi Team, We’ve observed that the Sterling B2Bi Map Editor Interface currently does not support the input of Chinese or Ukrainian characters. Could you please investigate whether this limitation is related to UTF-8 multi-byte character handling or ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Needs more information