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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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Identification of Destination Filename at map level or rule level

Destination filename can be set at map level or rule level based on the client requirements. Recently we had a discussion about the client migration to SPE02 system where report need to be generated whether the destination filename for inbound map...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Config Hub - Resource version selection and deployment option and Sync between Config Center and Config Hub

Existing Solution: Using Config Hub Customer/IBM Team can update the Resource but there is no option for revert back to old version and if we revert back through Config Center then new update creating in Config Hub instead of referring the old ver...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Planned for future release

Enhance REST service functionality to accept additional content types.

Vendors such as Adyen have the Content-Type as "application/json; charset=utf-8" rather than the standard application/json content type. The request is to enhance the OMS webservice functionality to accept content types that include the character ...
almost 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Select Adapter group with RESTApi for AS2 on SFG Cluster

Hi When SFG is in cluster mode, we use the sterling interface to edit the AS2 partner configuration and select an adapter group instead of an individual adapter to load balance the connection and avoid failures. We wanted to use the RESTAPI to per...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add Rest API for managing users

We would like to be able to add/modify/delete users via the Rest API. This would let us do centralized user management.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Future consideration

Regular expression flexibility for Search and Replace Xprocessor in BPNST Tool

Currently we have search and replace xprocessor for search a specific character/sequence of characters and replace with another character/sequence of another characters and if we need more characters to be search and replace then it's time taking ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Send connection down status file to Inflight at configured interval (Customer specific - dynamic) when SAP connection to specific host is down for longer time

Currently we are receiving connection down/up status files to Inflight at initial times and we need one more file for connection down in order to notify the Customer if the connection to specific host down for longer time. It's sort of SEV1 issue ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Not under consideration

Enable use of wildcards in the Watched directories list of File Agent

Currently one can only define a list of directories in CDFA. Each of this directory must be explicitely defined and hence cannot contain wildcards. The "Monitor sub-directories" option can be activated but this can result, in case of a complex dir...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration

License FASP at SSP rather than the endpoints. Add FASP support to SSP for additional protocols

FASP licensing could be applied to SSP rather than the underlying endpoints thereby allowing bridging to be performed where a multitude of underlying endpoints route through that SSP instance. Currently each endpoint has to be licensed individuall...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 1 Future consideration