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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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Have the ability to import a public and secret key ring into native PGP for B2Bi.

I believe that this functionality would be useful for the user community to be able to import an entire key ring (both public and secret) instead of having to import the keys individually.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Under review

In Control center Queued Process view should be cleared automatically

In the Control Center, for a process or session to be moved from the “Queued Process” view to the “Completed Processes” view, there should be an end event for the process/session. In certain situations, the process may stay in the “Queued Processe...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Under review

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

System level failure Notifications

Purpose of this request: Files entering IBM B2B SaaS solution should create failure notifications if failed. This is working fine when a file is failing in Inflight – Processing step. However, 2 areas are identified when no failure notification is...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications / Inflight 1 Under review

Export users details, permissions, paths configured, folder permissions in a one consolidated sheet in IBM Sterling Filegateway

Exporting users details like username, surname, email, permissions, file system paths configured in FS virtual root, adapter level permissions, folder level permissions in a one consolidated sheet for the use of security teams/ CISO teams to valid...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway 0 Under review

Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 3 Under review

HA Connectivity for Sterling Integrator to Oracle Database and Support Multiple scan address for RACs Scan

Hi Team, We would like to have a feature in sterling integrator to support HA connectivity when connect to oracle Database and also to support multiple scan address for RACs scan. Currently in sterling application we have configured the jdbc conne...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Update or Modification of Partner Configuration to the existing role out if incase of any failure

We are having issue deleting the partner ID from PEM.Below are the details:After completing the onboarding process, both PartnerName and PartnerId are generated and recorded in the Partner Information task. If a system failure occurs during the in...
11 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Onboarding 1 Under review

Refresh Token provided in HTTP Headers

Current situation: The OpenID Connect refresh token is sent as a GET parameter to the webservers of pem-pp and pem-pr applications so the refresh token is showed in the URL history of the browser/sniffer traffic: Example: GET/rochesso/home?refresh...
12 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review

Use Refresh token rotation to make Jwt token more secure

Current Situation: An access token allows temporary access to restricted resources, PEM APIs, and so has a short validity period of 5 minutes (configurable through system properties). A refresh token has a longer validity as it allows users to log...
12 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Under review