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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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Certify all components of Sterling suite to be use in virtual machines of clouds platforms like Azure, AWS, bluemix, etc.

Many customers are moving there infrastructure to the cloud, as a company that use computing services of IBM, the needs of our customers are essentials, so we need that the sterling suite must be compatible like on premise, with the O.S most use l...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

Support to Rearrange Columns in a Table

Columns can only be inserted at the end of a table. Sometimes a new column has to be added in the middle of the table which requires requires existing columns be deleted then recreated in the correct order. The ability to either rearrange columns ...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Not under consideration

PEPPOL AS2/AS4 flows: MDN should show up in Inflight Status event

In PEPPOL, why sending a file via AS2/AS4 to recipient AP via B2BAC. The Inflight entry is updated with Accepted event, but it doesn't show up the MDN copy which we received for the message. If MDN is visible, we can trace the errors in more faste...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Not under consideration

Redeliver undelivered messages that are NOT covered by the Retry Policy mechanism

Experience operating a B2B Advanced Communications/ IBM MQ / Sterling Business Integrator ebms AS4 gateway has shown that there are many ways in which outbound messages can fail. Relatively few of these are covered by the Retry policy mechanism bu...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Provide HTML feature in PEM Display

Currently, the options for display of multiple, or repeating XML elements is to map to the table or show only the first element. It would be nice to have HTML feature in PEM display to render the report make it look more professional
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Support External Authentication of PEM users (Sponsor and Partner users)

No description provided
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / User Administration 1 Planned for future release

Exporting Filesystem Virtual root path in SFG

The reason why exporting the file system virtual roots in Sterling Fileway is beneficial is that we need to export the filesystem paths that are assigned to specific users whenever a CISO, audit, or security team requests verification or audit che...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

MAC Algorithm Updates

We have a vendor that is requiring that we use "hmac-sha2-512" for our SFTP connection to them. I don't see that as an option per the documentation:The MAC the client prefers to use for stream encryption. Required. Valid values are:hmac-sha1hmac-m...
about 7 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

Failed to authenticate with SFTP/FTPs, doesn't display any information of the source

Hi currently, we have a policy to lock an account after 3 failed connections on SFTP or FTPs protocol. In the communication session, it's possible to have the IP source when the authentication is successfull, but when the connection failed, the IP...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Functionality already exists

Password & Key based authentication for individual users using single SFTP Server Adapter

Password or key, Password and key, Password, Key based authentication functionality is required with respective users segregation. Assuming that the SFTP server adapter's authentication type is set to Password or Key, when a user with access to th...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration