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Allow inventory supervisors the access to stop processing an SLC CR on behalf of the inventory team member that is currently processing the CR, but is out of the office.

It would be useful in the case of an inventory controller being out of the office and a site needs an SLC CR actioned ASAP. It would benefit the flow of production. All inventory supervisors would have access that would enable them to stop process...
9 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

We need to a native support of OpenSSL encryption as we have for PGP

Banks needs different ways to enrypt files at rest, and they need native support from the sterling solution instead of using CLI adaprter or other mehods
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Needs more information

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Add Solace to the list of supported vendors for JMS 1.1

Right now Solace is not listed under the supported vendors and configurations for JMS 1.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=adapters-supported-vendors-configurations-jms-11

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
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling Secure Proxy APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SSP rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SSP making it very difficu...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1

Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration