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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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SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

TELNET Check Button :: To check if partner had White-listed/allowing our IP address

Currently, when configuring AS2 profile for partner, we will have to go back to partner and check whether his firewall team had white-listed our IP address if we are unable to connect to their server. This can be known only after we start with the...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Enable Certificate Extraction Utility & Supported Ciphers Display in ConfigHub

Requirement: Enable Certificate Extraction Utility in ConfigHub UI (like what we have in B2Bi PODS today). We are also requesting an option to display supported ciphers by the remote end point. How does this help? IBM internal teams (Support &...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Global Seach Capability across all customer/trading partner connections in ConfigHub

As we are moving to new HTTP Adapter on cloud & moving all the connection configurations to ConfigHub, we would like to request the below Enhancement Requirement: For the benefit of IBM support & services teams, it is necessary to have a g...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

User Exit enhancement allowing a map to read rows in the TransactionRegister

Adding the requirement as SCBN Premium customer has requested duplicate file check based on PO number, within a given timeframe. Their current requirement is to check for duplicate PO within 72 hours. Based on feedback from development team the ti...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Hiding of unnecessary ROP/ROQ Methods

MRO provides a number of ROP/ROQ Methods that may not be applicable for a given client's environment. These methods are usually included by default in their drop-down list for selection by users. I'd like a method to either hide or remove methods ...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

API to GET all items having supplies for a node

IBM Inventory Visibility Service does not provide an API to GET all supplies available for a node. In our implementaion, there are hundreds of shipnodes. Also, many old items are discontinued often. If we want to do a comparison with IV for any ol...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

Configuring the SEAS to only respond with (UserID & Destination Indicator) in response to SSP and forward the Authentication request (Password/SSH Key) aganist/to Sterling integrator local store?

The process/flow will follow the below steps from (User to SSP to SEAS to SI) Step 1 - User Authentication request comes from SSP layer to SEAS; Step 2 - SEAS validates the user against connected AD and return only "UserID/Username && Dest...
over 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Option to create Dashboards in GrayLog

At the moment we don't have an option to create dashboards in the GrayLog. Given an option to create dashboards will help to monitor the number of errors or exceptions occurring on different business critical services.
6 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration