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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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Support multiple replicas and autoscaling for SSP engine containers.

The engine component of SSP naturally lends itself to multiple replicas and scaling like this and it would be very useful for autoscaling to create additional engines on demand. I do realize that all the engines would have to be "pre-defined" on t...
6 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Submitted

Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

For CD UNIX and CDWS Need stats/logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity ...
6 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Stream logs to AWS cloudwatch for better visibility.

Need logs streamed to cloudwatch so they can be monitored and acted upon using our visibility tools. We do not have direct access to the containers for checking logs and rely upon automated solutions to monitor activity in the cloud.
6 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Submitted

Oracle Linux support for Sterling Filegateway

We need the Sterling Filegateway product compatibility matrix updated with the Oracle Linux operating system

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

view partner details without having edit access

Our support team often need to view SFG partner details (profile/account/protocol/community membership) to troubleshoot issues, however we want it to be view-only access. We currently cant provide access to view that information without adding a u...
30 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Add support for RSA-OAEP Encryption algorithms to Sterling Integrator & File Gateway

Clients who exchange files with external partners may need RSA-OAEP encryption algorithms. Currently this is supported as a web service but not in the core functionality of the product. Lack of this is preventing more secure transfers when using S...
7 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

AS2SendSyncMDN status should be reset to 'Success' after successful http POST and positive MDN

For AS2SendSyncMDN state is being set to 'Error' when a AS2 message fails to POST to the partner URL in the first attempt. However, in the next retry interval it is being successfully posted to customer and MDN received. AS2SendSyncMDN business pr...
7 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Using the MS Edge UI make the previous and next buttons static, or duplicate them at the end of the page to save scrolling up the page, having reached the bottom, to click 'next'.

MS Edge UI for Sterling CD. I the display screens for Partners for example, the left and right (previous and next) symbols < and > scroll off the screen when navigating to the bottom of the list. One has then required to scroll back to the t...
19 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

The Edge UI, when viewing the details of a partner node where the Alt-comm outbound display contains 'long text', it will obliterate the Alt-Comm Information title and display further along the screen.

MS Edge UI for Sterling CD. The Alt-com outbound (display, not edit) obliterates the Alt Communication Information title and values if the Alt Communication outbound contains ‘long text’. It should wrap around the long text into it’s own field.
19 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted