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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...
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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Allow for a “System Use Notification” on login page.

Currently, in the 6.3 version of Control Center under Properties and the Welcome Message, a system notification message can be added. It would be nice to be able to something similar with Sterling File Gateway/B2B Integrator.
12 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

FTPS/SFTP list command to show folder timestamp

Currently only files show the last modified timestamps while folders show current timestamp of the list request. Proper behavior would be to also show folder last modified timestamp which is already available in the SI data model.
14 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
15 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Submitted

MFT Webdav

We need form authentification and not basic authentification for connect to Microsoft Sharepoint. Microsoft don't use basic authentification since few month ans (modern authentification) ticket : SI-576071
15 days ago in webMethods Managed File Transfer SaaS 0 Submitted

Enable the audit log for ITX flows at the pre and post processor levels in Inflight.

When a ITX map is invoked as TX map if there is a fail function written in map then we get "AUDIT LOG" inflightBut when ITX map is invoked as xproc map if there is a fail function written in map then we do not get "AUDIT LOG" inflight. Please enab...
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Option on "Sendor ID" for GS ID in addition to ISA.

We have partners with a Generic ISA ID, but the GS is specific. When searching by sendor and receiver, it would be beneficial to be able to use the GS instead.
20 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Work with Qualys to suppress CVE-2023-50164 false positive scan for SFG and B2BIi

Vulnerability Software Qualys are identifying IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and IBM Sterling B2B File Gateway impacted by CVE-2023-50164. IBM sterling product team confirmed the products are not impacted but scan results are still showing up. relate...

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.

Sterling Filegateway - Global mailbox support for the MQ FTE protocol

We are looking for Global mailbox support for the MQ FTE protocol. This is primary protocol used on our side for Intranet transfers.
26 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
27 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted