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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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Control Center authentication and control

For shops that are not using IBM Sterling External Authentication Server to authenticate to Control Center and are using the Control Center authentication, there is currently no way to set an expiration period for a user's password or forcing the ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

IBM Control Center Monitor Traffic from SSP

Right now Control Center lacks the functionality to be able to monitor file transfer traffic within SSP.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Document all special characters that are not allowed in a Connect:Direct related password (functional auth, soliddb password)

There are some special characters that will not be accepted in Connect:Direct and IBM has not officially identified these for customers. We need this information.
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Future consideration

Export all the results in one csv file, even if results are in multiple pages - IBM SQL DB Query Client

One request for enhancing the db query client. Even if results show up in pagination. Can you enable a feature where I can export all the results in one csv file. Like for e.g. if query results in more than 10K records, need a feature to export al...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
9 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics

In CDWS - Connect Direct Web Services - missing milliseconds value in selectstatistics CDWS endpoint: /cdwebconsole/svc/selectstatistics Example: CD Unix sel stat command there is a millisecond value: EVENT RECORD Record Id => SSTR Process Nam...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Future consideration

Myfilegateway 2.0 - merge Upload and Download views

Hello IBM team, currently, the "Upload" and "Download" views are splited in two distinct parts. This type of views create confusion from an end user point of view. Our proposal is to merge the "Upload" and "Download" views in order to hav...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

PGP Encryption/Decryption of a file with multiple recipients

Trading Partners may encrypt a file using multi-recipient encryption. For instance, they may encrypt a file with our Public PGP key as well as their own key. When we receive that file, we should be able to decrypt using our private key. Symantec a...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Allow to create PGP Partner & PGP sponsor through API's on SFG Swagger UI using Native PGP

There is no way to create on Native PGP a PGP Partner or a PGP sponsor using API's through this url : http://<host>:<baseport+74>/sfgapis/swagger-ui.html We would like 2 new menus in the swagger : pgp-partner-controller pgp-sponsor-con...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG

API to verify the Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG, we can achieve Heartbeat of B2Bi/SFG by calling Hello world http adapter with hello world bp. Here is a chance of raising false alarm though application is up & running state, but HTTP adapter is in dow...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration