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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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Windows authentication (instead of SQL authentication) for connection to the database

This is a security standard for the Windows platform. Similar to idea SFG-I-324, for Sterling File Gateway, clients are asking about the Windows authentication between CCM/D and the database. Not have this option might be a roadblock for some clie...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Under review

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

Allow External Authentication without create a local user

An user created for example in AD can use the SBI console (or ICC, SSP ...), only with external authentication, not being necessary to create a local user in Sterling. In other platforms the client has, the users just need register in AD, are assi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add Reservation demand to the Demand Publish Event.

During reservation create/Update/Delete, demand publish should publish the reservation demand data to the topic. This will help business to make decisions to control the sale real-time during Checkouts and cancels.
12 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release

CDWS: certificate-based authentication to C:D nodes

currently in CDWS Web-GUI user-logon screen it's only possible to login to a C:D node by providing USER-ID + PWD. e.g. https://cdws:9443/cdws-ui/login certificate-based authentication is only available for REST clients according to the documentati...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Validate API for Managed SSL Cert and Managed SSH Key

The out-of-box PEM Portal activities have options for Partners to upload SSL or SSH Keys. In case of a user error, a partner may upload an incorrect file. In such a scenario, the API to store SSL Cert or SSH Key to PR fails and there is no way to ...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

AWS S3 access-key and Secret-key Import/deployment option.

Option to deploy/import access-key/secret-key details into our product table. So that we can fetch those values while creating AWSS3custom protocol in IBM Sterling File gateway. This way we can able fetch Bucketname, access-key/secret-key values e...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 1 Future consideration

Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration