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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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Sterling Connect:Direct Application Interface for Java support to iSeries C:D version

CDJAI support all other platforms (Windows, Unix, ZOS and Tandem) except iSeries. This limitation restricts users to automate C:D configuration through CDJAI, similar to what we do in other platforms. Now we have to login to iSeries machine to do ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 3 Not under consideration

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Enable JMS Service to be configured under Adapter Container (AC) in addition to ASI

Our environment mostly (around 80%) consists of JMS services (queues) and we want to segregate that from our ASI, sometimes we have to reboot the entire Application (SBI) if the queues does not move. We are planning to move JMS Services to Adapter...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Support for token authentication

Some of REST APIs for IBM products have token authentication implemented. I.e., call a sign in API to get a token, and then use the token in a HTTP Header for all other API calls. Example Products: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy: https://www.ibm.com/su...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3 Planned for future release

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

Move $CL codelists from Legacy InFlight UI to Config Center UI under the company's Business Alias

When using $CL (codelist lookups via the Rules Engine), those codelists must be loaded to and maintained on Legacy InFlight UI. These codelists are difficult to update and maintain, cannot be exported, and also are not visible to clients using Con...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Enable support for AWS S3 Server Side Encryption on S3 Buckets

We need B2Bi AWS S3 Client Service adapter to support AWS S3 Server Side Encryption.
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Need for a B2B Integrator MONITORING  REST API

Need for a B2B Integrator REST API to return the following counts: *Number of Active, Halted, Waiting, Interrupted BPs. * Database usage KPIs : used space and free space. * Queue Depth. * Heap usage
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release