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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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Most effective KPIs based on business need

As of today, Order HUB’s Workspace allows for the creation of personalised dashboard workspaces and reports, based on the two KPIS of purchase orders and sales orders, that can only be consulted online and targeted up to 30 days before. The object...
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Submitted

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under 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...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Disable the Known host key validations for Outbound sftp connections ( StrictHostKeyChecking=no )

Hello - Checking, for the SFG outbound sftp client connections - if the known host key validations will be turned-off or make them dynamically added. this way we can get rid off the BP's that will fail in the steps for each occurrence when a partn...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 0 Future consideration

Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Passwordless connection to built-in local PostgreSQL

This enhancement should allow to use alternate access options to local PostgreSQL other than locally encrypted password to PostgreSQL user. Proposed solutions include: certificate-based authentication (preferred, if technically feasable) password ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Update GPM to work with Windows11

The GPM (Graphical Process Modeler) is not working with my new laptop that has Windows11 operating system.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration