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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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Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Workflow Completion Notificaton

One of my workflow clients is putting the inventory controller at the end of the approval workflow so the controller is aware that approvals have completed. This is highly inefficient as it causes an additional lag in processing time (particularly...
over 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Enhancement for R11 and R41 rules

Rule Type 11 is checking subelement values, but doesn’t return the bad value if no match. We wanted to populate the bad value as Data Content in Tack.html. As of now, there are no rules that could be used in this case. We need an enhancement for t...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

Product xlsx template import : beeing able to specify tag records

On transparent Supply, beeing able to specif the tags to import ( ‘category’ for instance) when using Product data load through the XLSX file import.
about 1 month ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 3 Not under consideration

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Java LTS - SI/B2BI needs a defined roadmap plan for Java Long Term Support adoption (e.g. Java 11 & Java 17)

A path and solid timeline for upgraded Java Long Term Support version adoption needs to be defined for the entire suite of IBM Sterling products. Information Risk Management teams and groups are requiring all applications to migrate and leverage u...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3

Insights into the failed messages on inflight Dashborad

Details of Ask •Able to gain insights into failed transactions, facilitating further categorization and grouping of failures by their error types to pinpoint unique errors. Example: Total Translation failures 100: i) Mandatory data missing: 50 (Ma...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 2 Future consideration

File transfer to AWS s3 via perimeter server

On the basis of security concerns Sterling filegateway comes with Perimeter server but when we connect to AWS s3 from SFG there is no option to route file via perimeter server. So to over come this we are raising this idea that when we transfer fi...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Capability to suppress emails as part of onboarding partners

As part of the partner onboarding when a customer wants to onboard partner to PEM emails notification on the onboarding status gets generated. We currently dont see any configurable options to control the behavior of the application. So customer w...
2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 1 Future consideration