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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...
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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Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Specific Version Map Deployment in Config Hub

Ceva is seeking an improvement on the config hub or a method to select specific versions for deployment. Example:Map Name: CEVA_WMS_SEPHORA_I_INSDES_XML_XML The map provided in CTE is version 2.2, while the Production environment operates on versi...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 1 Not under consideration

Query that can provide a list of mailboxes that are not a part of any delete services

This report would provide us insight on mailboxes that need to be added to delete services. During onboards, there could be mistakes on adding mailboxes to delete services, and that way we know to update them.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

SFG integration with Mainframe SFTP server Co:Z

Hi Team, We have SFTP server on mainframe using product CO:Z. In order to send files from open system to mainframe we have to set DCB parameters. Along with we want to trigger processes on mainframe. ls /+mode=text ,lrecl=80,recfm=fb,space=cyl.5.5...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Environment field on Client Adapters on containerized installation

Currently All ASI nodes available as environment to choose to run on nodes independently only for specific client adapters on containerized installation of B2BI. This should be made available at least on FTP, SFTP and HTTP Client adapters as in th...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Having different Status icon and Status in InFlight for the files that are Finished and not delivered to Partner/Customer.

Currently we see a Green tick mark for the files that get successfully processed irrespective of the fact whether these were delivered to the receiving party via an established connectivity or else FINISHED on SCBN. Many times while working on the...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Move $CL codelists from Legacy InFlight UI to Config Center UI under the company's Business Alias

When using $CL (codelist lookups via the Rules Engine), those codelists must be loaded to and maintained on Legacy InFlight UI. These codelists are difficult to update and maintain, cannot be exported, and also are not visible to clients using Con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Planned for future release

Synchronous transaction support on B2B.io

B2B.io Use Case: Nobian has a use case where Partner(sender) will send the request to B2B.io, which will get delivered to partner (External/internal- third party- receiver)- the response from the partner to be delivered to the Sender in a synchron...
about 1 month ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Automate certificate management

TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days). This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have...
2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted