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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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Enable the ability to copy text from the UI output.

Currently the only option for UI output is copying it as a picture, which has obvious drawbacks when copying and sharing information with business users. We are reduced to sending screenshots. It would be far better to be able to copy and share UI...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
29 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Ability to limit user access to particular document types.

Ability to give access by document type to users. We would like to limit the document types a user can view, like 404, 824 and 997s.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

Need Corresponding Release of Vulnerabilities Fixed by Recently Released Patches/Fix Packs

There needs to be planned release(s) of known security vulnerabilities that are addressed in recent patches, i.e. 6.1.2.4 through regular channels (subscribed notifications). That seems to be how they've been released for IBM Sterling products in ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

In Control center Queued Process view should be cleared automatically

In the Control Center, for a process or session to be moved from the “Queued Process” view to the “Completed Processes” view, there should be an end event for the process/session. In certain situations, the process may stay in the “Queued Processe...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Under review

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Needs more information

Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Future consideration