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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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Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
22 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Support VAST Storage S3 implementation

Customers who have chosen VAST Data's storage platform need to be able to read and write using the S3 APIs from SFG/B2Bi. The B2Bi Object Storage adapter needs to be certified for use with VAST's implementation of S3 (https://www.vastdata.com/blog...
8 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Issue with chinese characters or Ukranian characters in Sterling Map Editor

Hi Team, We’ve observed that the Sterling B2Bi Map Editor Interface currently does not support the input of Chinese or Ukrainian characters. Could you please investigate whether this limitation is related to UTF-8 multi-byte character handling or ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Needs more information

Oracle Linux support for Sterling Filegateway

We need the Sterling Filegateway product compatibility matrix updated with the Oracle Linux operating system

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...

view partner details without having edit access

Our support team often need to view SFG partner details (profile/account/protocol/community membership) to troubleshoot issues, however we want it to be view-only access. We currently cant provide access to view that information without adding a u...
22 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Update Sterling Connect:Direct OpenVMS and SSL versions

Upgrade Sterling Connect:Direct OpenVMS and SSL versions in Sterling's product development environment OpenVMS V8.4-2L3 SSL VSI I64VMS SSL31 V3.1-4 VSI I64VMS SSL3 V3.0-15 VSI I64VMS SSL111 V1.1-1W VSI I64VMS SSL1 V1.0-2UA
6 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
7 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Submitted

Support HSMs including Cloud HSMs in container versions of SSP

Financial services customer have regulatory requirements to use HSMs for certificate storage. In order for them to migrate to containers it is an absolute must that the container version of the products should support the same HSMs as the non-cont...
7 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted