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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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PGP Encryption/Decryption of a file with multiple recipients

Trading Partners may encrypt a file using multi-recipient encryption. For instance, they may encrypt a file with our Public PGP key as well as their own key. When we receive that file, we should be able to decrypt using our private key. Symantec a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

"Basic Authentication" on myfilegateway 2.0 not working

On myfilegateway 2.0, the trouble we get is that the authentication failed if the basic authentication is activated (option "User authentication Required").During the authentication, the browser request credentials but there are no taken into acco...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Extend myFileGateway/SFG such that users can be assigned to multiple organizations where that user can upload/download files within those organizations and have visibility to file movements within that organization

For security, administration, and governance, a user (external or internal) should be able to use a single LDAP account to manage multiple organizations in myFileGateway/SFG, where that LDAP user can upload/download files within those organization...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Future consideration

Provide a secure location for SaaS customers to store API secret IDs and keys so that they can more securely manage the application

As a part of any OMS implementation, integration with 3rd party external system is common. It will be great if IBM OMoC provided a secure vault solution to store API secret id and keys. For On Prem, customers could encrypt the secret id and keys. ...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration