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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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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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    Known Host Key Configuration - Host Value - expand characters limitation

    On 6.2.0.2 of SSP, using the new REACT's interface SSL : To create a new "Known Host Key Configuration" in Known Host Key Store, the field Host IP (optional) is limited to the following characters : .:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 4 Future consideration

    Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

    End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
    over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

    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...
    almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 6 Future consideration

    Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

    Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

    Ability to create DET's on currency table to account for significant variations in the exchange rate

    We encountered a situation where currency conversion has been applied in a separate SAP table which is not part of the standard connectors extract. That's result in values in MIO being incorrectly displayed and MIO and associated analytics reports...
    2 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

    IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

    Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

    Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

    It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
    4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 7 Submitted

    Container deployment or upgrade may not work in shared environments

    There's been a few cases pointed out where the B2BI/SFG example container scripts for creating SCCs, Cluster Roles, Rolebindings, etc do not work in shared environments. This is interfering with deployments and upgrades in shared environments. In ...
    10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0

    Data Limit Policy - generic

    It'll be very useful to block bigger files than configured limit size. SBI could avoid failures due to an abnormal reception in terms of big files sending by an external companies. Now, SBI permits to stablish a data policy limits specifically to ...
    about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

    Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

    I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
    almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

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