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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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Archive post processed/ Final delivery payload in the Inflight

In the archive process on SCBN, Currently we are archiving original input data and output data from the translation step. But we are expecting final output data which is delivered to partner after all post-processing steps in the flow instead of t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Planned for future release

Add AS4 Protocol to Partner Community Manager

With planned addition of AS4 to the core Sterling B2b Integrator, we request that the Partner Community Manager be updated to add AS4 as a protocol in the application/partner configurations. Partner/Application screens should allow for AS4 partner...

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
6 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
6 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Need the ability to disable the Shut Down the System link within Troubleshooter

Currently the Troubleshooter page has a variety of highly valuable Operations tools, but often there is a need to disable specific functions within the Troubleshooter, not the least of which is the Shut Down the System (softstop) option. Operation...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Request support for SHA224 hashes to cover entire SHA-2 suite

B2B Advanced Communications currently only supports the following options for digest hash function and signature hash function: MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512 The SHA-2 family of hashes specifies support for the following set of hash algorithms: SH...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Planned for future release

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration