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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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High Watermark Report

How about adding the high watermark report back to the web client for 6.3. I have to launch the thick client to be able to run this report.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Delivered

B2Bi should support the use of credentials from AWS EC2 instance profiles to enable access to AWS S3 buckets

B2B Integrator 6.0.1 provides an adapter for AWS S3. This adapter requires the use of AWS access keys (awss3.accesskey & awss3.secretkey) for access to S3 buckets. This is not a practical approach for automated batch processes since the AWS ac...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Support JWT based authentication in Configurator APIs

Configurator APIs are not secured. They only support User/Password or User/Token but that relies on Sterling Foundation to authenticate. This adds up additional steps and significant latency in the API turn around time.
about 5 years ago in OMS - Configure, Price, Quote 1 Delivered

New EBICS Order Types NAA & NAB

My customer needs EBICS 2.5 Order Types NAA and NAB to be added to the supported ones for EBICS Server and Client. The customer is acting on behalf a german bank on EBA ACH and need to use these order types to exchange files between my customer an...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 1 Delivered

Improve performance on SORTUP and SORTDOWN functions

Performance on functions SORTUP and SORTDOWN is dramatically catastrophic when there are "lots" of data to sort (25 min to sort 1 000 000 of numbers). See test case attached. Improving performance of those functions is more that required. New sort...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 1 Delivered

SSP - add support for securing MQ connections

In order to monitor SSP via Control Center, MQ has to be used. SSP and ICC do not support secure connections to MQ. All our connections have to use SSL, therefore we cannot monitor SSP.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 1 Delivered

Increase Key Exchange Security

We have a merchant who can't complete connectivity to SSP SFTP because they don't support the Key Exchange we currently have available. Their preference would be to use these kex protocols:ecdh-sha2-nistp256 ephemeral-ephemeral elliptic curve Diff...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Delivered

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6

Need for Sterling Secure Proxy to Support IPv6
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Suppress load balancer health check pings for Configuration Manager Dashboard

We have Active- Passive Configuration Manager in our implementations. Administrators connect to Configuration Manager via Load Balancer URL. This would allow the administrators not to worry which configuration manager server they connect to.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Support for Windows 2012 R2

Windows 2012 R2 should be add Gentran:Server system requirements.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered