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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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Customize the mailbox creation for partner creation

Hi Team, We need ability to create few additional mailboxes once new partner creation on SFG. By default when a partner gets created, a root , inbox, archive mailboxes are created. We want below structure to be created when new partner is ad...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Provide method to support EBICS SEPA XML Containers

The EBICS v3 BTF includes a container parameter which can be set to ZIP or XML. The XML option means that all files that match the download parameters must be combined as a single XML file according to the requirements set out in the German DFU ag...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

AS2SendSyncMDN status should be reset to 'Success' after successful http POST and positive MDN

For AS2SendSyncMDN state is being set to 'Error' when a AS2 message fails to POST to the partner URL in the first attempt. However, in the next retry interval it is being successfully posted to customer and MDN received. AS2SendSyncMDN business pr...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

AS2 File status updates

When trying to send a file to the customer, it shows in PCM that the file was successful. See screenshot #1. When you View Activity, it shows that the file/s were sent to AS2. See screenshot #2. However, the AS2 connection is not working. When tes...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.

Make Open Telemetry available in CCM

Please make Open telemetry available in CCM. CCM should be able to monitor 1) Queue depth from MQ perspective 2) Loss of connectivity between B2Bi and MQ server. Refer to Idea CCM1-I-382 This was the issue we had in production MQ serve...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Submitted

Proposal for SAML 2.0 Support in IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM) to Enable Federated Authentication

As part of our enterprise security standards, all public-facing components must support federated authentication using SAML 2.0 with an enterprise Identity Provider (IdP). Currently, IBM Partner Engagement Manager (PEM) does not officially support...
6 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 0 Submitted

Enable custom widgets in CCM dashboards with global filters/multiple dashboards

MFT operators want to see multiple aspects of the health of their systems pulling in data from other tools such as sever performance as well as their own reports (either built with Jasper or by embedding reports from other tools like Grafana) on k...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Submitted

Add AS4 Protocol to Partner Community Manager

With planned addition of AS4 to the core Sterling B2b Integrator, we request that the Partner Community Manager be updated to add AS4 as a protocol in the application/partner configurations. Partner/Application screens should allow for AS4 partner...

Direct connector from ICC to ServiceNow

ICC generates SNMP traps and an intermediate tool captures it and then generates ticket on ServiceNow. This gives less control on how the tickets are generated on an incident management tool. Also, if there is a direct connector, we may also get r...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Submitted