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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...

Sterling B2B Integrator

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Compatibility with databases managed on cloud - DBaaS

On the last deployment scenarios in which applications are deployed on cloud (on virtual servers or containers) it would be useful to be able to use DBaaS distributions such us DB2 on Cloud or Azure SQL. It is a backward step to have to use on-pre...

SSH User Identity Key > 2,048 bit

Partner ask to generate a auth key of 4,096-bit or larger, however Sterling menu doesn't allow for any key size except 1,024, 1,536 or 2,048. Also, there does not appear to be a documented and supported method to generate a key pair using a comman...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered

Upgrade Cassandra to 4.0 for Global Mailbox in order to support auditlogs

that would be useful for auditing purposes. PCI-DSS requirements require to audit systems access. All customers working in financial industry would benefit from this.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

SFG Community to be able to refer to Multiple PGP Server profiles for encryption / decryption.

For SFG Community we need to be able to select the PGP Server profile being used as SBI already has provision to create multiple PGP Server profile for different PGP implementation.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered

Adapter/Service for interfacing with Apache Kafka

Clients are looking at Kafka for event management and asking if we will support this type of interface in SB2Bi
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

Global Mailbox backend file replication SSH settings (ciphers, hmacs, group exchanges) currently are not configurable, even in 6.1

QUALYS scans are revealing that the out-of-box settings utilized CBC ciphers and SHA1 group-exchanges. These should be configurable settings for the TCP 33001 port to secure with CTR and/or GCM ciphers as well as SHA2/256 group exchanges.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Delivered

Allow Legal Characters in SSH Remote Profile Fields (Sterling File Gateway)

There are several characters that are legal in the SSH protocol, but are not allowed in the SFG UI and B2B API's. Remote Hostname: ~!@#$%^&*()_+=[]{}|\:’;”<>,?/ and SPACE Remote Host Username: !#%^&*()+{}[]|’;”<>? and SPACE Rem...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Delivered

Enable FIPS mode support to IBM Native PGP

My companies security and compliance required FIPS enabled for payload encryption for specific data classifications and exchanging data with specific US government entities. My company wanted to leverage IBM Native PGP instead of a 3rd party exter...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Support myfilegateway rebranding to work at Certified Containers on OpenShift

There are some documentation on how to rebrand and or customizing FileGateway and MyFilegateway, however they will not work at all on Certified Containers on OpenShift.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Delivered

Providing a list of supported encryption keys.

VENDOR supported Keys Keys that will be supported RSA (3072) Ed25519 ECDSA (nistp521) The feedback from the PepsiCo ECG team below is we only accept the following supported keys: PepsiCo supported keys ssh -rsa 2048, ssh-rsa 1024, ssh-rsa , ssh-dss
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered