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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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Can we include the "Last Reviewed By" and/or "Last updated By" be included in the Item View Grid?

Can we include the "Last Reviewed By" and/or "Last updated By" be included in the Item View Grid?
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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about 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

Restrict Elliptic curves for SSL connection for Https/AS2 connectivity

Currently, there is no option to restrict or use only required Elliptic curves for the SSL connection for https/AS2 connectivity. For Example: Below are the Elliptic curves secp192r1 – {1.2.840.10045.3.1.1} secp224r1 – {1.3.132.0.33} secp256r1 – {...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration

Adding new indexes to database for enhancing performance.

The current DB settings seems to be insufficient for production environment. The performance dramatically enhanced after adding them during DB analysis made by our DBA team. I have raised TS001613070, and IBM Support agreed to add these indexes bu...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 1 Future consideration

Alert Notification for pre-processing and post processing steps Delay (AS2, Doc extract and processing delays)

ASN notifications for customers. SLAs with customers which require ASNs to be sent within a 29 minute window. Failures in pre-processing steps are not visible in Inflight until doc extract is completed and translation action is processing.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Future consideration

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 1 Future consideration

Need Audit details of cycle count Approval and Rejection

We need an Audit Details of who approved/Rejected the cycle count on variance ,Currently we have audit details only to whom the task is assigned but not the details of person who approved/rejected it hence it is becoming difficult to identify the ...
over 1 year ago in Store Engagement / APIs & SDKs 3 Future consideration

IBM Connect:Direct license auditing and alerting through Control Center Director

The idea is to have a Control Center director to have a functionality to verify if usage of IBM Connect:Direct installation meets licensing requirements for specific machine. for example in case of session based licenses if number of allowed concu...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Future consideration

Allow kerberos authentication for Sterling B2B Integrator to connect to it's database

Security policy in our organisation mandates that applications must use integrated / trusted authentication to connect to databases (rather than SQL authentication / username + password). I'm unable to find any IBM documentation regarding this for...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Add default version to codelists endpoint

Currently the codelists endpoint of the B2BI API does not include the default version of the codelist. This makes it impossible to know which version of a code list is currently the default version and doesn't allow for the ability to update the d...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 5 Future consideration