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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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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...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flow within CD/Z when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/Z initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/Z via ALT.COMM path(s).
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

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-...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

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...

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 2 months 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 2 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Move $CL codelists from Legacy InFlight UI to Config Center UI under the company's Business Alias

When using $CL (codelist lookups via the Rules Engine), those codelists must be loaded to and maintained on Legacy InFlight UI. These codelists are difficult to update and maintain, cannot be exported, and also are not visible to clients using Con...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Support Encrypted ZIP Files

We got a request to extract the files from an encrypted ZIP file and provide them to a shared volume. Today Active Transfer does not support decryption during ZIP extraction. It would also be useful if there is an option to specify an encryption p...
25 days ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted