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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 using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Allow b2bi trading partners to change file ownership and permissions

Many of our customers have legal and regulatory requirements to set the permissions and ownership of files after they are sent to our MFT. This is currently not supported on Sterling File Gateway. This is causing issues for our customers. The abil...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Propagate DSNTYPE values between z/OS systems

Consider cloning the DSNTYPE values for transfers between z/OS systems by the default. Shouldn't be necessary to specify them if the source dataset must be the same as the destination
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Regarding user account creation alert in SI/SFG

Hi Team, We do not have any option to get an alert or notification whenever we create a new user in Sterling Dashboard or File-Gateway, It will be good if we can have an alert in security point of you, Please let me know if you need any other info...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Needs more information

Timezone conversion/formatting for time-related variables

We are testing Control Center for monitoring and managing C:D server, and one of the inconvenience we encountered was the lack of formatting options for time-related variables (event elements). To elablorate, we tried to set up rules and actions t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release

Inflight API to fetch the count of Documents status from Inflight(Red,Yellow,Red Reviewed,Yellow Reviewed

Need Inflight API's to fetch the count of Documents status from Inflight(Red,Yellow,Red Reviewed,Yellow Reviewed) This will help getting the instant details for the customers /Support to know about the Document status with out having to login to t...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Alerts Notification capability to customers / Support in PGP Self Service

Currently SCBN is providing self service provision through ConfigHub so that Customer can perform activities on their own with out depending on the IBM Support teams. Recently PGP key were migrated to ConfigHub where customers and support can manm...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Planned for future release

InFlight API' - TP Summary

We have Reports available in inflight which Customer can run and download them from inflight (TP Summary /Inbound Activity Report /outbound Activity reports) Customer is asking for API so that they can fetch the Reports through API,Please do the n...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Planned for future release

PGP UnPackage service to identify if the file was encrypted or signed only

When a signed file is process in Filegateway and with PGP preference set (decryption,sign verification On )PGP UnPackage service does not provide error to state that the file was only signed and not able to decrypt. The PGP UnPackage service compl...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Group system in userfile.cfg (UNIX)

In an environment with hundreds of users defined in the same userfile.cfg, it would be nice to be able to govern them through a system of groups or profiles to reduce administration time and avoid unnecessary failures.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration