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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...
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...

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Support HSMs including Cloud HSMs in container versions of SSP

Financial services customer have regulatory requirements to use HSMs for certificate storage. In order for them to migrate to containers it is an absolute must that the container version of the products should support the same HSMs as the non-cont...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Not under consideration

Support VAST Storage S3 implementation

Customers who have chosen VAST Data's storage platform need to be able to read and write using the S3 APIs from SFG/B2Bi. The B2Bi Object Storage adapter needs to be certified for use with VAST's implementation of S3 (https://www.vastdata.com/blog...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Data extract api search enhancement for Reference # wildcard search with additional filter

Hi Team, We had created TS019992184 for help with enhancements related to document number search based on reference number. 1.We do not currently have the capability to perform a 'contains' search using wildcards or regex. 2. We do not have filter...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Azure Event Hub Native Connectivity & Service Principal Authentication

Request that IBM provide native connectivity to Microsoft Event Hub in B2bi with authentication via Microsoft Entra id service principal. Unlike the current configuration option which supports secret key or account key, the enhancement would suppo...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

SFG Resiliency

Customer had two issues in differente dates. Those issues were a high network latency. The first issue was some problem with the network and after few days the DNS. In both cases SFG colapsed and crashed. Some SFG transfers were lost. There is the...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 2 Not under consideration

Audit logging to support PCI requirements of ADMIN users and their ACTIONS

From a PCI perspective our people want Audit logging of whenever a user with ADMIN rights updates something in Connect:Direct whether via Secure+ or in the NETMAP or the Functional Authorities or Initparams. Whatever an ADMIN has rights to update,...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3