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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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Active Transfer SFTP Pre-Hooks Support

Enhancement in Active Transfer Server to support SFTP GET and PUT pre-hooks. This will enable the users to perform preparatory actions such as file validation, logging or other security checks, before the file transfer occurs. Pre-hooks to be able...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

MFT Zero Trust Architecture Support

To achieve zero trust architecture in MFT scenarios, customer wants JWT support for authentication & authorization where scope needs to be handled outside of MFT solution and should be dynamic where a scope for a user/connection changes, MFT s...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

The email ID is with a limit of 30 characters, that needs to be modified to allow more than 30 characters

The IBM Sterling deployment using SAML has a limitation at present, where it does not allow users with more than 30 characters in the email ID to login. Whenever the partner users email id or username greater than 30 characters system doesn't allo...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 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
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

B2BAC - Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud na...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

IBM Control Center - Not finding specific MSGID's

Need IBM Control Center to monitor the following MSG ID's SVTM026I - Session not establishedSVTM505I - Session Retry exceededSVTM105I - A process may be moved to HO HC Currently IBM Control Center is not getting recording these events and we need ...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review

Archived document should always contains both input and output data even though there are multiple processing steps.

I have noticed that, for a flow, IBM is receiving the files from the trading partner with the CII format and converting them to XML format before sending them to the customer, and finally, the customer is receiving XML files from IBM. In this flow...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud native te...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Under review

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration