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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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Ability to remove a CD Node and ALL references to it in other Netmaps etc with the click of a button.

Removing an unused CD Node can take hours of manual changes to remove all entries in other netmaps etc

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

Ability to retrieve original payload from B2B logs

The content downloaded from transaction log is modified. We would like to be able to download the actual data that was received.
25 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

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...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0 Future 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).
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 9 Future 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

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
4 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review