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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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SFTP Ciphers Enhancement Required

TP sent out notification saying, "CTR encryption cipher suites for SSH will no longer be supported. Transmission disruptions may be experienced if updates are not made. If you connect to Host-to-Host through SFTP to the transmissions.jpmorgan.com ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Delivered

Block users from attempting authentication at the Secure Proxy level

We have a Secure Proxy engine that is exposed to the internet. As such we are subjected to a large number of "probing" login attempts from usernames such as "root", "admin", etc. All of our login attempts are passed to a Sterling External Authenti...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 2 Delivered

Connect:Direct Win/Unix Interface to Cyberark or other Priviledged Account Solutions

If a PAM-tool like Cyberark is in use, users don't have real logon-credentials for Windows- or Unix-Server any more; these are maintained by Cyberark.
over 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Delivered

Password Vault Support for Connect Direct for Windows

IT Security forbids the use of static passwords and mandates that they are changed periodically.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Delivered

EBICS Order Types, Custom Order Types

We find the need to have the following 'order types' available in EBICS for B2B Integrator.​ GVO/Order type Description Direction Origin Comment/ Remark CCU Urgent Credit Transfers XML (URGP) G EBICS SCT urgent Pain.001 messages - Service Level UR...

Need connectivity to Amazon AWS S3 through an Adapter

There is a growing need to file and data transfer to be either sourced from or sent to Amazon AWS S3 storage. We have an immediate need for multiple such requests today to integrate with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator at Novartis. We need a built in ...

In CDPLEX environment, CD manager needs to issue a message to indicate server is down after receiving XCF signal

In case TS009569597, we have found CD manager hangs at shutdown due to shutdown has been initiated for CD manager but XCF signal for CD server down has not been received by CD manager.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Delivered

Support for Java 11+

Currently IBM Sterling is officially only supported on Java 1.8. There are improvements made on JDK since 1.8 especially around native webservice call. We would like IBM to certify java 11 and above for Sterling OMS.
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Delivered

Enhance CSV import for quoted fields

Currently Design Server has the capability for importing csv with quoted fields where option available to choose String or Custom CSV import. It will be great if we have similar import option in Design Studio to avoid manual errors while creating ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Importers 1 Delivered

Ability to Add, delete, Update Servers and Ability to Add, delete, Update Metadata Rules & Metadata Actions through API

We need ability to perform below configurations in Control Center through API interface - Add, update, delete a server to control center Add, update, delete a server group to control center Add, update, delete a Metadata Rule to control center Add...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered