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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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Provide QueueWatch Audit data

As part of our effort to more thoroughly track usage in SBI, we need to be able to audit QueueWatch usage. In IBM case TS013772150, we were informed that this functionality does not exist.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Support for latest X12 standard versions (such as version 8050)

Trading partners are now using updated X12 standard versions, such as version 8050. Sterling B2B Integrator users/customers will not be able to do business with trading partners if standards are not in step with community X12 standard versions.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Restrict user permission (Read/Write/Download etc) in SFG MyFiles for Sterling File Partners

This would help ensure clients have proper user permissions (Read, Write, Download etc) in SFG MyFile 2.0. This gives a level of security on that account if that account should only download files or read files.
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

Data Limit Policy - generic

It'll be very useful to block bigger files than configured limit size. SBI could avoid failures due to an abnormal reception in terms of big files sending by an external companies. Now, SBI permits to stablish a data policy limits specifically to ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

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...
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Performance 0 Planned for future release

Integrated File Agent - High Availability Option

The Standalone option of File Agent currently offers high availability however, the new Integrated File Agent does not. This would prevent us from fully migrating across to Integrated File Agent across our existing clustered Nodes that utilise thi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Allow to use two wildcards in SFTP Client LIST service

We would like to pick up files from our partners using two wildcards in RemoteFileName field in SFTP Client LIST and SFTP Client GET services.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Restarting a Carbon Copy Branch in InFlight

We work on a lot of Business scenarios for the SCBN Customers where the main document is carbon copied and sent for parallel processing. In this case, we would see a separate entry for the main branch and separate entries for the Carbon Copied bra...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Support TLS Certificate authentication in SMTP adapter

Migrating to Microsoft Cloud-hosted SMTP Relay using port 25. Applications are required to have company domain issued TLS certificate for communication when sending to users outside the company.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

Provide "null" as value when there is no record of the item

Currently, when we call IV asking for the availability of a SKU that does not exist (eg "Hobbit_250", IV returns "0" units available. But considering that IV has no record of this product, we want IV to return "Null" If there is a record of the pr...
about 1 month ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration