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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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Custom HTTP Headers Response for B2B Sterling Integrator Applications

Web Application Security is always evolving and new vulnerabilities and hardening futures are being created continously. Many of the vulnerabilities remediation are based of add parameters in the HTTP Response Header. For example: Content-Security...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Supporting AUTH TLS for FTPS Port 21

Enable AUTH TLS on FTPS Transfer. Current version of SI 6.1.2 doesn't support AUTH TLS. This was a request from an external vendor to enable AUTH TLS for secured transfer.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Fix/Update Schedule inclusion timeframes to allow 12am/00:00

The current error message in the schedule exclusion section suggests that the 12:00am time frame should be used. Its not clear to the users and admins that the exclusion will not run at midnight. Updating the error message or allowing 12:00 would ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

File Extraction Notification

Within the global mailbox administrator, we can see in the extraction criteria tab of mailbox explorer the date/time that a file is extracted either by file delivery from SFG/GM or by the client pulling the file from the mailbox. Our issue is that...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 4 Future consideration

Sterling REST API Update without prior get

Hi, We would like to update a specific user groups and accounts without changing the earlier configurations and permissions. In order to do so, we have to first GET the earlier configuration of the interested account, then add the new configuratio...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Increase RECSIZE to a higher value for version 3.6.02

The data is not able to be transferred for certain transmissions due to record size not large enough. We are requesting to increase the RECSIZE (RUSIZE)value from 8989 to B9B9 so that our LOB customers can transfer files without a size issue.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 3 Planned for future release

Support using REST for Web Services in addition to SOAP

REST is the newer and becoming more popular way of doing web services instead of SOAP. Will definitely improve functionality of the product and supporting newer technologies will improve product marketability. I would like to see it work in a simi...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Planned for future release

Allow Sponsor More Flexibility in Changing Partner Account User Roles

Here is some information on the issues associated with having a main partner admin associated with every PEM partner account. Let's call this the super admin for the purposes of this email. The super admin is the partner admin who is required to r...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Add an Undo Button with Control+Z functionality

Undo (Ctrl+z) should undo the last few actions. The UI designer makes it especially easy to accidentally move an item and there is no way to move it back. Simple mistakes like this should be undo-able.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

As IBM support feedback from TS011512648. Connect Direct does not have a file locking feature on the NAS level. This should be basic security features when it comes to moving of files. appreciate if this could be added in the future release of Connect Direct.

Basic Security feature comes from the OS level that should be handled also on Connect Direct.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Not under consideration