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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...
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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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Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 5 Needs more information

Support for HTTP CONNECT method

Support for the CONNECT method would help facilitate the use of Secure Proxy as a more generic HTTP proxy. Our particular use case, we need to connect to cloud based object storage from from an on-prem IBM Connect:Direct node, but is not currently...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 0 Submitted

Enable end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

SFTP Ciphers Enhancement Required

TP sent out notification saying, "CTR encryption cipher suites for SSH will no longer be supported. Transmission disruptions may be experienced if updates are not made. If you connect to Host-to-Host through SFTP to the transmissions.jpmorgan.com ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1

SSH host Key only allowing dsa and rsa

One of our 3rd parties mentioned that they were planning on doing a change to Host Key Algorithms to allow rsa-sha2-512 rsa-sha2-256 As more clients are moving to secure host keys we would prefer to have this option
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

Support Gentran for iSeries on PowerVS

Support Gentran for iSeries on PowerVS. I see no reason the product shouldn't be supported on a PowerVS (virtual server), which is suppose to be the same as a physical iSeries.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Usability 0 Submitted

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