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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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SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
8 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 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 ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration

"Forgot password" feature in myFG2.0 application

Today, if one of our partners who uses myFG2.0 loses their password, they must contact us to request a new password. With the large number of partners we have, password loss events have become frequent and the recovery method, via email or phone, ...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 2 Future consideration

Synchronous transaction support on B2B.io

B2B.io Use Case: Nobian has a use case where Partner(sender) will send the request to B2B.io, which will get delivered to partner (External/internal- third party- receiver)- the response from the partner to be delivered to the Sender in a synchron...
9 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
17 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users.

Inventory Audit details page in Order Hub should be more meaningful to end users and help to refer the shipment/order linked to transaction type of the inventory change. Example below In Inventory audit details screen in Order Hub UI the Reference...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Connect Direct File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Under review

SAPSTAT Inflight logging

Currently, in the SAPSTAT flow, we are unable to override Inflight tracking details such as ExtraInfo1, ExtraInfo2, ExtraInfo3, and Reference Number. These fields are tracked with the same values as the original outbound document from the client. ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Chained order link is not always visible on Order Lines table in Order Hub

Chained order link is missing in Sales order line table, for scenario where a Return order is archived (residing in history table) and sales order is active order (residing in transaction table). It shows up fine when the return order also resides...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted