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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...

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Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Add default version to codelists endpoint

Currently the codelists endpoint of the B2BI API does not include the default version of the codelist. This makes it impossible to know which version of a code list is currently the default version and doesn't allow for the ability to update the d...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Support for with PostgreSQL

The request is for IBM Sterling B2B integrator and SFG to support PostgreSQL
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

ITXA - Import mxl maps from SI into SPE

When importing a map from SI into SPE, only the .txo is successfully imported and not the .mxl. This idea would ensure that both the .txo and .xml are imported, and would avoid the manual step of having to separately upload the .mxl to the map in ...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Planned for future release

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator External Perimeter Server Version details.

Logging the version details of IBM Sterling B2B External Perimeter Server either files like "PSLogger" or "StartupPS.log" or "remote_perimeter.properties" files of IBM external perimeter server. This would be more helpful during below scenario'...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Planned for future release

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration