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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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Add Control Center monitoring capability for DATA EXPRESS OPEN PLATFORM (vendor DATA443)

TSYS recently went through a merger with Global Payments. As a result of the merger, some business/operations functions between the two companies have been consolidated. Global Payments utilizes Data Express Open Platform by DATA443. There is not ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 2 Functionality already exists

Capture partner TLS version information during handshake

For all communications protocols (FTPs, SFTP, AS2, ConnectDirect etc), we would like to capture TLS version in logs. In case of upgrades, it helps to work with respective partners to upgrade to supported TLS version.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Add Ability To Configure Where Launcher Logs Are Written

We are starting to use the Launcher image to deploy and run Launcher in containers. The Launcher Logs are written to <itx_install_dir>/logs by default, and there is no way to change where these logs are written. So, when the pod/container is...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 2 Functionality already exists

Document conversion service

With increasing demand to handle PDF documents, it would be good to have this feature in SCBN where pdf can be read and converted to other formats. Similar to IBM Document Conversion Services. Is this service already in place in SCBN? Since ITX ca...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Functionality already exists

Utility to check compatibility and compliance of maps when upgrading to a new ITX version

ITX to provide an utility that can check if th existing maps are compatible with the new version of ITX or needs recompilation/modification. For shops with hundreds of maps this will identify the maps that need some action, hence improving the mig...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Functionality already exists

B2Bi server down should indicate node ID

When ICC sees that a node went down in B2Bi, it only shows the server name/alias and not the node that went down
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 4 Functionality already exists

Output data control

Add data control for JALE adapted, and more.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Functionality already exists

Tool to monitor cert expiry

We want to put an alerting mechanism to monitor cert expire so we can proactively plan.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Enhance REST API Client service to allow connection via DMZ / Perimeter server

Currently REST API Client service can establish connection to REST API endpoint via local perimeter or proxy only. This presents an issue while connecting to external partners. Request is to enhance REST API Client service to allow configuration f...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 3 Functionality already exists

Develop SEAS to intelligently query for IPs that come from a subnet and allow them in if that subnet is in an LDAP attribute

Why useful? Useful because these days a lot of trading partners are coming from cloud environments that aren't front-ended by one (or a handful) IP address. Who benefits? Anyone who desires to whitelist IPs as a means of authentication or just as ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Functionality already exists