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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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Bulk Edit from File if errored should display more details

When the file used in bulk edit from file throws error, it will be good to have more details on the error like- no unique match found for some specific rows or missing items etc. Currently, we have to try various scenarios to troubleshoot the prob...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Restrict Elliptic curves for SSL connection for Https/AS2 connectivity

Currently, there is no option to restrict or use only required Elliptic curves for the SSL connection for https/AS2 connectivity. For Example: Below are the Elliptic curves secp192r1 – {1.2.840.10045.3.1.1} secp224r1 – {1.3.132.0.33} secp256r1 – {...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Add built-in report for bruteforce attempts.

The Sterling Proxy is our gateway between the internet and SFG. As such, we are exposed to attempts to guess user IDs using brutefore methods. The raw internal logs show each event and contain the IP address, Time, username and number of failed...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 3 Future consideration

Need Audit details of cycle count Approval and Rejection

We need an Audit Details of who approved/Rejected the cycle count on variance ,Currently we have audit details only to whom the task is assigned but not the details of person who approved/rejected it hence it is becoming difficult to identify the ...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Future consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Allow to create PGP Partner & PGP sponsor through API's on SFG Swagger UI using Native PGP

There is no way to create on Native PGP a PGP Partner or a PGP sponsor using API's through this url : http://<host>:<baseport+74>/sfgapis/swagger-ui.html We would like 2 new menus in the swagger : pgp-partner-controller pgp-sponsor-con...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

PIV Card Support for Sterling MFT/B2B Products

PIV was initially introduced by HSPD-12 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12), in August of 2004. However, it is just now that agencies are being mandated to comply with this directive. The first required delivery date that we know of for ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 1 Future consideration