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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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Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Properly document SEAS

There are many screens in SEAS UI that are not documented at all or fully.

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Submitted

ITXA should allow the functional map to be opened in the new window.

Right now, while doing mapping in ITXA, if we want to move from one functional map to another or to the main map or vice-versa. The new maps always open in the same window which makes it quite difficult to work with the mapping. especially when we...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

ITXA should have an option to allow users to search based on FUNCTION name or what function does just like what we have in SI Mapper.

Right now, while doing the mapping in ITXA, we need to search the function manually and only by name. There is no search bar or anything which allows us to search based on the FUNCTION name or what FUNCTION does in ITXA. Add a search bar just in S...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

ITXA should show functions while doing the mapping in ITXA window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 3 Under review

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

InFlight PPID Business Field Filter Search

The Protocol Started >> Event Details Tab displays the PPID (Protocol Profile ID) for OB transactions in InFlight. It would be extremely useful if PPID was added to the 'Business Field' Search filter drop-down. This would allow Internal Supp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Supply Chain Business Network / Inflight 3 Planned for future release

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration