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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 support for Encrypt-to-Self option

It is to allow remote partner (the file owner) and the recipient can decrypt the file too. In GPG, it will scan KeyID and if any keyID is found in the keyring, it will use the corresponding private key to decrypt the file. Some trading partners en...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Delivered

SFG does not always handle signed encrypted messages correctly

Associated PMR: TS010987658 Partner P is associated with a community C. The community is associated with a PGP key PK. Now if partner encrypts the message with public key associated with PK and signs with his private key then SFG can decrypt and p...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Delivered

Some sites still require Implicit SSL due to business pressure

Implicit SSL is generally not a best practice when setting up FTPS. The preferred alternative is Explicit SSL, which is the current standard for FTPS connections for Secure Proxy. However, some of our customers experience intense business pressure...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Delivered

Sterling support for SQL Server 2017

when will MSFT SQL Server 2017 be supported in Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Delivered

Bulk Supply/Demand API

Ability to call multiple API's with single API similar to multiAPI in OMS product. This will enable the customers to call multiple API's like get supplies, get demands with in same response for an Item and parse the data accordingly. Requirement S...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

TPUI - A person with USER role, with ENVELOPE - FULL ACCESS grant should be able to select a map from within the EDIT of an Envelope and save. Today, this requires SYSTEM ADMIN role.

a USER role with ENVELOPE - FULL ACCESS grant should be able to select a map and save the envelope. An ADMIN role with ENVELOPE - FULL ACCESS grant should be able to select a map and save the envelope. A company should not have to give a SYSTEM AD...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Delivered

CD for z/OS - customisation of ISPF panel library for scroll amounts & CF enhancement

Hi. I have 2 enhancement requests, but they both relate to the ISPF panels for CD for zOS. 1. The default scroll amount on various panels is set to PAGE. I think the CSR setting is more flexible. As the panels do not remember your settings, I h...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

Remove Rate Limits in Pre Prod environment

We have multiple applications which receive data from IV and so when ever those applications including IBM OMS have a deployment we will execute performance tests. Having rate limit on the pre-prod environment limits our ability to perform the tests.
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Allow multiple PGP decryption keys per community

We have a security requirement to use expiring PGP keys and change them every few years. Since Sterling only supports a single PGP key per community all of our trading partners have to change their jobs at the same time in order to use our new PGP...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Control Center

Rather than installing a new instance of ICC and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful to know dates sooner rather than later. Please advised when support for RHEL8...