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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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Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 4 Needs more information

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Versions in Rules at BPN Support tool

Versions in Rules at BPN Support tool to switch to previous setup if any issues
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Needs more information

Need to switch option while selecting sender id and receiver id in Inflight

Need to switch option while selecting sender id and receiver id in Inflight
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Needs more information

BPN Rule duplicate validation to avoid conflict in different files handling.

GISHI Orcharstration System does not have the validation to cross verify the duplication of existing rules, due to that, Implementation or Support Team creating the new duplicate rules for handling Customer or Partner new enhancements and it cause...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Needs more information

Allow ITXA Trading Partner UI to use Windows Services

We installed ITXA with Sterling Integrator. When the SI services are started manually, using an Admin CMD window, the SPE link (in SI) stops working when I sign off of the SI application server. When the services are started with a server reboot, ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Needs more information

Add Audit Log Capabilities to File Agent

For Stand alone and Integrated File Agent, some kind of auditing feature needs to be added. Currently messages are created showing that the configuration has been updated, but what in the configuration was updated? This is what shops need to know.
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Needs more information

ITXA - Operating System Specific jar files for the ITXA packs of all supported ITXA versions needs to be created and stored in IBM site, to share with the ITXA customers, during ITXA installation

For the packs installation in ITXA, we need a jar file. This jar file creation needs Windows OS, and the jar files should need to be OS-specific (either Linux, Windows, or AIX). In case any jar file contains another OS version, apart from the cust...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 2 Needs more information

More uses of resource vars

We have different engineers who all have a different way of storing general used parts of mappings (i.e. TypeTrees). The possibility to use a resource var in the filename parts of input and output cards would help us drastically to maintain a cent...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Needs more information

OpenLDAP support - Force password change on File Gateway Logon

We use OpenLDAP for password authentication of our external customers. Spoke with IBM developers (listed in PMR - Naru Manda) and was told that when Sterling was written because OpenLDAP did not have a password policy at the time, that no hook was...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Needs more information