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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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Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Audit record/log for the SQL statement executed via db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh scripts

Hi Team, Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator there is no audit records/logs for the SQL statements executed via scripts db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh. We have verified the logs and ADMIN_AUDIT table and could not find any audit trial for the SQL ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Multi-threaded solution for MEFG adapter

Since MEFG adapter is single threaded , it can handle only one SWIFT (Interact / Fileact )request at a time . This makes subsequent SWIFT requests keeping in queue waiting to reach till MEFG adapter, this breaks the SLA of responding SWIFT request...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 2 Future consideration

Extend myFileGateway/SFG such that users can be assigned to multiple organizations where that user can upload/download files within those organizations and have visibility to file movements within that organization

For security, administration, and governance, a user (external or internal) should be able to use a single LDAP account to manage multiple organizations in myFileGateway/SFG, where that LDAP user can upload/download files within those organization...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

Direct option to download multiple input and output files with single click from Inflight tool

This option will help Inflight users to download multiple files
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Dashboard should give the possibility in the key creation to add ECDSA keys

Currently when creating SSH keys via the SBI dashboard ( Trading partner --> SSH --> Use Identity key --> create --> New user key ), only RSA and DSA keys encryption can be chosen. But in the real world, companies require much higher a...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns. Currently none of the columns are allowing Sorting. Having the ability to sort based on Name,Type,Profile,Number of Instances and Status will be helpful.
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Generate Notifications From IBM Secure Proxy on Expiring Certificates

When using Connect: Direct and Secure Proxy, all the Partner specific certificates currently get checked into IBM Secure Proxy Trust Store, if there are Partner certificates up for expiry there is no functionality available in SSP to notify on th...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Update to existing OrderSummary and OrderArchive when an Index is Updated

Order Service is looked as the one-stop service for all customer orders (both active/history and archived orders). Business usually have new requirements in terms to providing additional search criteria's for lookup of orders based on internal and...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration