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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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Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Have the ability to import a public and secret key ring into native PGP for B2Bi.

I believe that this functionality would be useful for the user community to be able to import an entire key ring (both public and secret) instead of having to import the keys individually.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Under review

Ceva Needs Status Messages captured on Inflight with Dynamic DOCTYPE values set from the Process Data

The Ceva Logistics has started new onboardings with JSON via new EDI foundation Project and A huge number of Onboarding are expected and this becomes their new normal. As part of it Ceva needs Status Messages captured on Inflight with Dynamic Send...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 5 Planned for future release

Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

PGP Adapter : Enable support for different Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm

The OpenPGP adapter does not support all of the latest set of Encryption , Signing & Compression Algorithm natively. Below are the list of supported values Compression types (-COMALG) : ZLIB Encryption Algorithm (-ENCALG ) : 3DES , RIJNDAEL256...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

MyFileGateway interaction when PEM/PCM is installed

This affects businesses who use "MyFileGateway" to allow their external customers to upload files. Have a customer need for MyFleGateway, when integrated with PEM/PCM to pull file transfer upload success/failure and/or routing information from PCM...
2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

CCD should keep track of connection high water mark

One of the ways to license C:D is based on the max number of connections over a given period. However, I'm told that this information is no longer available in CCD. The other option that was mentioned is being able to pull this from C:D directly.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Functionality already exists

be able to create a single new user through REST API

Make it possible to add a new user in the User Store using Rest API.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted