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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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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

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

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

To include option to depoly the maps into multiple Business Aliases

Existing system: Current option doesn't allow us to upload the maps into all the Business Aliases when multiple Business Aliases are present for a client. We have to load the map into each Business Alias individually in this case. Also If user mis...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Change the process to do 'Reset to Default' in Order Hub to view the newly added OOB search filter in the UI.

There is a need to do 'Reset to Default' in Order Hub post every deployment when a OOB search filter is added on search screen. Else it is not visible. Idea is to remove the need to do that. Typically from user perspective they find it very hard t...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Include user email in Item history API

This API can be used to download and review past exports but currently does not include user email.
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

JMS Information to be visible and searchable in Inflight

Description JMS Sender, JMS Receiver, JMS MessageTypes and JMS MessageIDs to be made available as search parameters on Inflight Inbound: Successfully delivered JMS message ID:414d5120514d2e42504e543120202020e91f6e6665bc4c2d to TST.BPN.TO.CEVWPJMSS...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1). I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application. We wi...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

In FinPay PLUS 10.2.3.0 euroSIC messages are missing Business Application Header (BAH)

In the euroSIC schema, the BAH is based on the "classic" head.001.001.01 ( https://www2.swift.com/mystandards/#/mx/head.001.001.01 ) . The header is required for all euroSIC messages.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review