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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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BPN Rules levels with "Default with condition / Last preference with condition" option

We know the Default option in the BPN ST rules has the last preference when conditions are not matched. If we can have an extra option "Default with the condition" which works similarly to the "Default" option but it checks the condition. If still...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Implement Password rules for FTP(s) and SFTP Server Adapter External Authentication

Our platform is using IBM Sterling Integrator 6.1.1 Not using Sterling Secure Proxy All the accounts are created using local LDAP on the app servers. These accounts do not use IBM Sterling Authentication. FTP(s) or SFTP Following are the requireme...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Update Installation Manager to use installed version of java

SBI currently requires IIM to install. IIM comes packaged with its own version of Java, which is typically out of date and (as instructed in a PMR) cannot be updated independently to bring into compliance. If IIM could be configured to use an inst...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Not under consideration

Tracking variables [PF1, Pf2 etc] in Inflight Event Details

The variables [like ProcessingFlag1/Flag2/Flag3 etc] for each transaction are being set either at the BPN ST rule level or Map or both. At present, the Event details for the Sucess/Error messages don't have these values tracked in Inflight. Is t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

myfilegateway download tab

When a producer uploads a file to a mailbox that has an associated routing channel, once the routing is complete the file shows up in the file listing in the producers download tab in myfilegateway. This has caused some concern for some of my prod...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

Need to connect Sybase Database with ssl port using mercator (ODBC adapter)

Currently IBM Transformation extender tool (version 10.0.0) using ODBC adapter for sybase DB connections for creating .mdq file. We are able to connect syabse database with normal port but we are facing issue while connecting with ssl port. When c...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 5 Not under consideration

Email notification when API task is failed in Activity

Whenever activity failed due to any reason an email should get triggered. So that current search manual work will be reduced and also this functionality will increase the sponsor user experience.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release

track duplicate email ID, while sending out registration invite

When we invite an email id which is already registered in PEM, it throws no warning, but mentions as invite sent and that person can click the link and register, but while approving in PEM it throws as Email ID already exists. It would be better, ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Supply Client Certificate Details to BP launched by HTTP Server Adapter

Details as to the CommonName of the Client Certificate and its Signing Authority would be useful in BP ProcessData to validate that the Client Certificate belongs to the source system that used it, and that it is signed by the correct CA (when mul...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Workflow not Halting for Unmanaged Exceptions

Documentation states: " When no code attribute exists and no match to a defined attribute exists for an onFault element at a level, Sterling B2B Integrator moves to a general onFault (no code attribute) element. If Sterling B2B Integrator does not...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration