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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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Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 6 Needs more information

Enable File Visibility Control features in PEM Community Manager

In PEM Community Manager's, roles are assigned to users, allowing them to view file content from File Transfer Search. However, there is a security concern as users with these roles also have the capability to edit and upload files directly from t...
3 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Permission/Roles 0 Submitted

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 3 Needs more information

Myfilegateway 2.0 - Web UI customisation lack

Hello IBM team, we noticed a lack regarding the possibilities to customise the Web User Interface of myfilegateway 2.0. As myfilegateway 2.0 is a web client interface customer-orientated, it would be a good progress to suggest more configurati...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Enable support for AWS S3 Server Side Encryption on S3 Buckets

We need B2Bi AWS S3 Client Service adapter to support AWS S3 Server Side Encryption.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

Global Mailbox aged documents or orphan file deletion

On a B2B Integrator software, where HighAvailability is not needed, the payload storage is on shared drive with a simple directory path /opt/b2bsi/documents/2024/01/..... the path has a linear map towards the payload storage. Even if payload gets ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Enhancement for R11 and R41 rules

Rule Type 11 is checking subelement values, but doesn’t return the bad value if no match. We wanted to populate the bad value as Data Content in Tack.html. As of now, there are no rules that could be used in this case. We need an enhancement for t...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Planned for future release

Product xlsx template import : beeing able to specify tag records

On transparent Supply, beeing able to specif the tags to import ( ‘category’ for instance) when using Product data load through the XLSX file import.
about 2 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 3 Not under consideration

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...
12 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration