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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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Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 6 Future consideration

Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Have one "map" to convert EDI into a human readable format, such as HTML

Currently, we have several maps that translate EDI into HTML. They are for 824s, 864s, and 860s. There are separate maps for various versions (i.e. 4010, 4060, 5010). The maps are VERY large and complex. Plus, they all contain user exits, and IBM ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 4 Not under consideration

Feature of Looping to be incorporated on Tasks/Dialogs/API calls etc

Feature of Looping needs to be added on Tasks/Dialogs/API calls etc. Instead of stretching the current flows statically, it is always advisable to have dynamic looping feature, which would make the flows scalable. It not only makes the flow scalab...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

Notify Sponsor an error has occured for a Partner's activity

When a partner is completing an activity an error can occur. In order for the partner to continue the activity the sponsor must investigate the error, resolve, and notify the partner to continue the activity. Currently, there is no way for the Spo...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 2 Not under consideration

Make Compatible With Windows 11 Pro

Microsoft is pushing to move to Windows 11
over 1 year ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Develop SEAS to intelligently query for IPs that come from a subnet and allow them in if that subnet is in an LDAP attribute

Why useful? Useful because these days a lot of trading partners are coming from cloud environments that aren't front-ended by one (or a handful) IP address. Who benefits? Anyone who desires to whitelist IPs as a means of authentication or just as ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Functionality already exists

OAGIS 10.0 is not available in map editor, only 9.0 is available

Customers with Oracle applications and other XML-based applications are using OAGIS 10.0 versions which are not available in Sterling standard/maps. We tried to load the OAGIS 10.0 schemas into the map editor and map editor crashed due to the size...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration