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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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Password cannot be obscured in CSR Create property file

Hi Team, We are using HSM to create certificates. While creating a CSR, if I provide the store password as OBSCURED, I am getting the following error. However, if I use a normal password, I do not encounter this error. Please note that we are not ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Improvements to JMS monitoring screen in SST

I'll attach my suggestion / queries in a docx as it includes some pictures. In summary, since the move to the new JMS monitoring we have some questions and suggestions for how it could be improved, in particualr on the Queue depth graph and the qu...
5 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

Scheduler to call Customer REST API to pull the files from the location

There is a Customer who want us to pull their files in frequent interval times by connecting to their REST API URL. Currently we don't have scheduler in place to poll the document by using the REST API.
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Planned for future release

Add Certificate Authentication capability to the CD Web Services REST API web interface (swagger).

CD Web Services supports certificate authentication for the web UI and also for REST API calls, but the provided web UI interface for testing REST API (swagger, path is cdws-doc/signOn.html) does not. This makes it difficult to design and test sol...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

SI-564665 jconn42 problem with webMethods

Feature request to ceritfy JDBC Adapter 10.3 to connect to db2 using jConn42.jar
about 1 month ago in WebM ActiveTransfer 0 Submitted

Enhanced control over the "reviewed" radio button in the B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI enables users to view the current status of inbound and outbound file processing to target systems. As part of managing a production live service, we have encountered some issues whereby files have been incorrectly ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

Control Center needs the ability to pull account passwords from a corporate password manager/vault

Due to security requirements and best practices, passwords should be changed periodically and wherever possible, should not be stored on local systems in text/XML files, etc. Control Center should have an option to utilize external Password Vault ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release