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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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Enable Wildcard Entry as Default Lookup Value in Orchestrator/SAT Code Lists

Currently, we use the $CL macro to access Orchestrator/SAT codelists in BPN ST routing rules. However, these codelists do not support wildcard entries (e.g., using an asterisk) for assigning default values when no exact match is found for the look...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

ID logging for added / deleted/ modiifed ID's in User proxy/ Functional Authorities

We need logging to be done as to what ID has been added deleted or modified in connect Direct Proxy users or functional authorities in windows Connect Direct as currently no modification can be seen of users only submitter details are found
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

API to get queueWatch informations

The queueWatch monitors several components of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and manage definitions and configurations of the queues. This tool is recommended to cases where the customer has the need on watching queues on realtime and their informati...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR)

Also See: RFI # 2776: Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR) | X12 Add a logic to Hipaa compliance check, such that diagnosis pointer used in SV107 in 837P PACDR, and SV311 in 837D PACDR, does NOT exceed the number of diag codes used in HI segment.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 1 Future consideration

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

Give Integrated File Agent (IFA) the ability to point to a load balancer

Today IFA can only point to C:D on the same server. If it could use a load balancer, the workload could be distributed among multiple CD servers. It would also be nice to add HA support: if one IFA goes down, another one could pick up the work
27 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

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...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration