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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...

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Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 2 Needs more information

I would like to see control center monitor use active directory as an authenticator vs just SQL authentication when connecting to a MSSQL database

For security reasons we don't use SQL Authentication for local accounts. We use domain service accounts. We would like to see the CC adopt this option for authentication.
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Needs more information

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 2 Needs more information

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Versions in Rules at BPN Support tool

Versions in Rules at BPN Support tool to switch to previous setup if any issues
5 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Needs more information

Need to switch option while selecting sender id and receiver id in Inflight

Need to switch option while selecting sender id and receiver id in Inflight
5 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Needs more information

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
6 months ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Other 0 Needs more information

Allow ITXA Trading Partner UI to use Windows Services

We installed ITXA with Sterling Integrator. When the SI services are started manually, using an Admin CMD window, the SPE link (in SI) stops working when I sign off of the SI application server. When the services are started with a server reboot, ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Needs more information

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Needs more information