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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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"Request for Enhancement" : ability to do explicit SSL ("SSL is optional") be added to the SMTP Send Adapter

We are trying to use the SMTP Send adapter( for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.x version) to connect Office 365 server using port 587, and realized that Sterling could not able make a connection, as SMTP Send adapter supports only two options " SSL can...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Support for Microsoft Windows 2022

My Customer needs to implement Connect:Express in Microsoft Windows 2022. However, we have support for Microsoft Windows 2019 not 2022.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Enhance data export process to support cloud storage

As per the current design, the export file is directly written onto the SFTP server also it's possible that incomplete files can be read by the consumer process. because this is implemented on SFTP there is no inherent event that can trigger a con...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release

Excel Adapter - When importing an Excel spreadsheet. Use the first Row as the Column Names.

When importing an Excel Spreadsheet as a type tree, the importer creates a type tree with Generic Names : ie . COLA COLB..... If the importer can have an option to use the first ROW as the Column Names, then when the type tree is created, the Colu...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

Mapping, Transformation from/to Excel

Excel is becoming the usability standard for structured data. On many occassions the CSV file can't be used and formatted in Excel, so natively Excel is being used to exchange data.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Inactivity user account control

Admin/User accounts within IBM Control Center cant be disabled/removed after a specified period of inactivity in compliance with the security procedure Risks: Application parameter settings that do not automatically disable and/or remove user ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Future consideration

Add support for a callback to a custom login page in Store Engagement to support users that have timed out on their login session

In conjunction with https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/STORE-I-49, support the ability to have a callback URL in the case where a deeplink is called. It's possible that the deeplink is initiated AFTER a user's store engagement login ses...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Future consideration

Allow page refresh on any page within Store Engagement

If you perform a page refresh via the browser or code, it loads the default Store Engagement page and you lose the view of where you were. It would be useful to allow a page refresh within any page of Store Engagement to reload the current context...
about 3 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Not under consideration

Update Get Partner API to Include UserId as Input

Since you are not allowed to add emails across two accounts, it would be good if you could check if an email is associated with any partner already. The Get Partner API does not allow you to search by userid as an input. Adding userid as a input w...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / APIs & SDKs 0 Planned for future release

CAPTCHA implementation for SFG UI Interface

One of our Customer (STATE BANK OF INDIA) raised the below security issue. They are migrating their SFTP partner to Sterling File Gateway. They have requested to have CAPTCHA option when partners uploading files via the SFG UI. Their requirement i...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Functionality already exists