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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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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...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future consideration

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
22 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

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 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

myfilegateway GUI popup messages

We are using IBM MyFileGateway v1.0 solution for HTTPs file transfer. Our customers are using this portal for upload/download files over HTTPs. Our Internal Business Team raised serious concerns over UI observations/issues which are easily noticea...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Functionality already exists

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Handling Zero byte files on SCBN

For customer Electrolux - We are receiving intermittent zero byte files from Electrolux. Currently these messages are failing on SCBN with the below translation report. Client wanted to identify these files and update Inflight logger ExtraInfo det...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Extend the length of the work code field in MROIO

We require a 2 character extension on the Work Code field from 2 digits to a 4 digit field. This would allow us more characters to add a two digit year designation for material that we track under the Nonbooked inventory returned work code. This i...
24 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

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 ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Under review