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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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Config Hub - Protocol - Connection Description feature to Company/Trading Partner resources/connections view under the each Customer.

Customers/B2Bi SaaS wants to see more information like connection description along with connection name under the Connections section in Config Hub for each Config Hub Customer. Currently we have the only fields/columns available with the names a...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Needs more information

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has limit of 3 IP addresses

HPE NonStop ConnectDirect netmap has a limit of only 3 IP addresses. Whereas ConnectDirect on linux or windows systems have larger limit and also altcomm parameter to specify alternate IP addresses. This limits HP NonStop connecting to a unix/wind...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Under review

Add TLS1.3 Support for IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop

TLS1.3 is currently adopted most secure way of secure communication and IBM ConnectDirect on HPE NonStop is still not supporting TLS1.3.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Under review

Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

C:D Container support for more than 1 replica

Currently there is a known limitation where IBM Connect:Direct for Unix chart is supported with only 1 replica count It would be very hepful to support more than 1 replica to be able to operate on different pods that may be on different worker nod...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2

myFG2.0 deployment on multiple HTTP Server Adapter

myfilegateway1.0 can be hosted on different http server adapters and that helps to split the traffic and achieve high availability but the same is not possible with mfg2.0, updated version of myfg2.0 should have same flexibility as old version of ...

Add a status field on Inflight under Business Field1 to find out only the status of "Finish" documents

Many Support Users from GSK are asking if there is a way find Finish documents from Inflight from search criteria instead of looking into events. This feature will also be useful if there was a planned outage at partner of customer side to hold do...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration