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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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Redeliver undelivered messages that are NOT covered by the Retry Policy mechanism

Experience operating a B2B Advanced Communications/ IBM MQ / Sterling Business Integrator ebms AS4 gateway has shown that there are many ways in which outbound messages can fail. Relatively few of these are covered by the Retry policy mechanism bu...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Make Connect Direct for z/OS the only handler of encryption and decryption. We dont want to grant users access to the Cryptografic Services Facility

We have noticed that Connect Direct for z/OS requests users submiting a job to have READ access to the CSFSERV when using any of the GCM ciphers.We want to use the highest available cipher without compromising the security by granting unrequired r...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Control Center does not support the Secure connection with the SMTP server

I installed control center and I can't send email to my user reset the password. My relay only uses TLS protocol.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Support for MQ version 9.2, currently supports upto v9.1.0.7

Our Implementation uses Global Mailbox and the current version of B2Bi (6.1.0.3, 6.1.1) supports maximum MQ version 9.1.0.7. Our Security and MQ team have identified a security vulnerability with version 9.1.x.x which is remediated with version 9....
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Is a defect

Support/document health endpoints in REST services

It would be useful to have actuator-like health endpoints in the product's REST and REST Authentication WAR services so that a gateway or load-balancer can gracefully work with the services. If these exist, just documenting them would be great.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Popup on Partner "Start task" when Campaign Waiting on Sponsor Action

It is not clear to partner's when a campaign is waiting for Sponsor's to complete approvals/tasks. Currently, the partner is able to click the "Start task" button, but nothing happens. The icon at the top of the screen is small and not obvious to ...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Add check Box to show default rules in BPN

BPN does not have the capability of checking the default rules created for a specific customer business alias.If a checkbox is added, the Implementer/PER/Support teams will be able to easily identify the default rules created for the customer. It ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Adding "Dictionary password checker" for password

Prevent clients from using common word for password.. e.g. password
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Under review

Additional attribute fileds for INBOX view in sterling document tracking

Request to add additional attribute fields for INBOX view in sterling document tracking to have more searchable fields based on on the business data logging. Currently, IBM sterling is having only one attribute field available in INBOX view to fil...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 4 Future consideration

SCCD deploy xlate tables

We need to use SCCD to deploy user configured xlate tables to CD Linux and CD Windows servers. We have more than 2100 servers, and if we need to change the xlate tables in all of them one by one, the cost in hours it's not affordable.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Functionality already exists