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Please add 'Delete After Collection' functionality for mailbox protocol

The current implementation of the mailbox protocol lacks the ability to delete files after collection, which significantly limits its utility for our requirements. As we frequently need to remove source files post-collection, this omission renders...
8 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Needs more information

Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

DateTime Functions should handle Epoch as well

We're receiving a message where the timestamps are in Epoch notation. ToDateTime and FromDateTime (and maybe other related functions) should be able to handle this so it can be treated and/or formatted in a human-readable format.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Needs more information

Selecting Active Directory Group for authentication

Instead of selecting each user from LDAP and give access. If we have option to select the Active Directory Group(low_pre_access_group, high_pre_access_group) from LDAP and assign to access. It will be helpful and reduce task of adding every new us...
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 3 Needs more information

POST Call should create user identity key using the same 4 parametres we uses while creating the key from SI UI.

Hi Team, When we create the user identity key from within the SI interface, all we have to do is provide the values for the below-mentioned details and the system already creates the key for us. Key Name Key Type Key Length Comment Enable or Disab...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Needs more information

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 3 Needs more information

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Need mTLS connectivity

This is a request for enhancement. Could you add mTLS to this product. Currently we have one partner that is requesting this capability in order to do business with them. mTLS is a type of mutual authentication in which the two parties in a connec...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

trade up process is too complex and cumbersome

seller contacts project office to explore usage or tries to use parts in SQO routing them to project office via checkfile configuration 2. Project office distributes trade-up spreadsheet seeking input on existing entitlement, S&S LPP, and inte...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Needs more information

OpenLDAP support - Force password change on File Gateway Logon

We use OpenLDAP for password authentication of our external customers. Spoke with IBM developers (listed in PMR - Naru Manda) and was told that when Sterling was written because OpenLDAP did not have a password policy at the time, that no hook was...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Needs more information

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