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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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PEM Cloud Application Outage Notification List

Currently, we have no way of knowing if there are PEM Cloud Application outages/issues. Having a outage email notification field will allow us to add a distribution list or a list of emails to contact us.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Alerting/Notifications 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom resource permissions for Store Engagement App

Application Manager currently restricts ability to add custom resource permissions for IBM Store Engagement application. This idea would provide ability to manage permissions for custom UI components in IBM Store Engagement application.
over 2 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 1 Is a defect

SFG does not accept any host key except RSA and DSS. Also there should be a configuration mechanism for ciphers.

SFG does not support any client Known Host Key except RSA and DSS. Now a days a significant number of clients are using Open SSH which uses ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 as the primary cipher and unfortunately SFG does not support that. We have at least 10 ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Functionality already exists

Add DR profile when primary doesn't work

Provide feature to add disaster recovery(DR) IPs by various partners for their primary sites while we setup sftp or other protocol remote profiles while configuring the profile. As on date, there is no way for SFG to setup so that the disaster rec...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Track users' changes for each item

This feature can be implemented as a new widget in item form or a new tab under Recent activity widget along with Note and workflow and only should display changes that users have made to an item. It's kind of an audit log and can be used in troub...
over 2 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Add version manager for BPN rules and version change history(Salesforce Case number) as searchable field

Existing: Current BPN rules(specific to a customer) does not have any unique name(like partner name or anything unique)which troubleshooter can use to collect/trace all rules where message can pass to. Required: As we have version manager for...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Not under consideration

SIEM Integration with IBM Sterling Filegateway

SIEM is used to collect, aggregate, and analyze data from sterling applications, and users in real-time can detect issues whenever required, It seems sterling filegatway is not supported to integrate SIEM. we have raised PMR support ticket with IB...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

IdAM integration with either OKTA/ Compact identity provider

Since the customer is from the Banking and Financial sector, IdAM is expected to manage the relationship between an entity and the resources to which access is required. We have raised a PMR ticket (TS012827600) stating that we do not have any doc...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Unable to receive email notifications after changing of payload repository as filesystem in SFTP Server Adapter

Email notifications are very critical in business use cases where customer are required to get notified when file transfer success/failure, system performance.
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Systems and System-related objects should be visible in the Portal UI.

There should be a way to view a system, its extensions, and profile references in the PEM Portal. This would provide users with easy access to this information as a reference when a campaign is not currently open for that system. It would also giv...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 2 Planned for future release