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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 File Agent 1.4.0.3-SterlingConnectDirectFileAgent-iFix012 upgrade on Window 2012 upgrade failing when userID is already a part of Admin group

Being a part of admin group, user was not able to upgrade while trying to upgrade CDFA 1.4.0.3 iFix012. Now suggestion is to add this User as a designated admin user of window box. This addition of user as admin is not allowed because this practic...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

Extended Status Representation for Delivery Status and Current Process Status

The current versions have a limited number of statuses. In SFG, the Delivery Status has either Started, Succeeded (Routed), Failed, or Ignored. In B2B, the Current Processes Status has a stoplight style image that is either Red (failure) or Green ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Functionality already exists

Config Hub Codelist download in CTE/Production must have filename prefix or suffix - CTE/PROD/Business Alias

When an SME is trying to download codelist from CTE/Production via Config Hub both of them have the same file name which creates to much confusion, Can we have a prefix or suffix as CTE or PROD or at least Business Alias that can indicate from whi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Chained order link is not always visible on Order Lines table in Order Hub

Chained order link is missing in Sales order line table, for scenario where a Return order is archived (residing in history table) and sales order is active order (residing in transaction table). It shows up fine when the return order also resides...
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

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...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 12 Planned for future release

Native PGP needs to support AEAD(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data) cipher

Our multiple finance customers requesting to support for AEAD cipher in PGP in file transfers. We are using Native PGP which is bundled in B2Bi/SFG. Current Native PGP adheres to RFC 4880 which doesn't support AEAD. We need AEAD support in product...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders. If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry. We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration