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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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File Encoding Not Properly Reflected in InFlight UI

The "Encoding" option in the InFlight UI currently displays "default," which does not provide meaningful information to the user. As a result, users must download the file, open it in a text editor such as Notepad++, and manually check the actual ...
5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 3 Submitted

Connect:Direct limitation retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories.

Connect:Direct has a known limitation when retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories. If you attempt to retrieve ( GET ) a file located in a specific subfolder within a bucket (e.g., /folder1/file), and the user does not have permission to ac...
2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 0 Submitted

provide WmTNStub package to IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration

In webmethods cloud container a solution is available to seamlessly migrate Trading Network solutions developed on-prem to the cloud.it is possible to import all TN assets to B2B cloud and all integration server packages that have a dependency on ...
6 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
6 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

view partner details without having edit access

Our support team often need to view SFG partner details (profile/account/protocol/community membership) to troubleshoot issues, however we want it to be view-only access. We currently cant provide access to view that information without adding a u...
6 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

improve house cleaning efficiency

We at FEPOC has been using this product together with ITXA and ITX since 2019. The issue here is that the house cleaning jobs are not keeping up with the high volume we process every day. See the detail word document in support ticket TS018931836....
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 5 Planned for future release

Oracle Linux support for Sterling Filegateway

We need the Sterling Filegateway product compatibility matrix updated with the Oracle Linux operating system

Improve SPOE update process in containers so that a helm install is not required

Currently, when making an update to the SPOE file, the process requires the file to be pulled in via a helm install. In an enterprise environment, there tend to be limitations on what can be done during business hours as part of normal configurati...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

Assess and modify Sterling OMS to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit Ford, IBM, and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of Ford’s OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, Ford Motor Company is enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native C...
6 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted