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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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URL to access BP Logs and other resources

Current B2B web interface does not allow URLs links to BP logs and other resources. There is no way to send a link that someone can click-on to view a BP log/ BP Definition/ Envelope/CodeList. (As opposed to sending them the number and requiring t...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Native PGP - Interface level compression setting

In other PGP software you can alter the compression algorithm. In the case of Native PGP, we can only change compression at a global level. Down the road, if a partner requires a certain compression algorithm other than the global one that’s set, ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration

Dashboard should give the possibility in the key creation to add ECDSA keys

Currently when creating SSH keys via the SBI dashboard ( Trading partner --> SSH --> Use Identity key --> create --> New user key ), only RSA and DSA keys encryption can be chosen. But in the real world, companies require much higher a...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

"Basic Authentication" on myfilegateway 2.0 not working

On myfilegateway 2.0, the trouble we get is that the authentication failed if the basic authentication is activated (option "User authentication Required").During the authentication, the browser request credentials but there are no taken into acco...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume Field to be defined something like TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal (16,4) ... and not TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal(14,4) At the moment the TOTAL_VOLUME(14,4) does not accomodate over siz...
over 4 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns

SST - > Server Configuration Tab-> Enable Sorting based on Columns. Currently none of the columns are allowing Sorting. Having the ability to sort based on Name,Type,Profile,Number of Instances and Status will be helpful.
11 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Italian E-invoicing: Time reporting between Inflight submitted date and reached SDI date

By law in Italy all EDI invoices need to be supplied to SDI within 12 calendar days. In order to find out if this is the case it is required to have data from Inflight to query. Currently the Event data when it is requesting SDI to approve or deny...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration