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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 end users to replay their own files WITHOUT giving them any other administrative permissions.

End users often need to have files replayed due to various intermittent SFG error conditions. Allowing these users to replay their own files saves them time and saves SFG administrators the effort required to replay these files
over 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

OAuth support for HTTP Server Adapters

Currently HTTP Server Adapters in Sterling B2B Integrator only support basic authentication. It would be good if we can have OAuth authentication natively in B2Bi as OAuth is currently an industry standard for Authentication and Security and most ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

SFTP Client GET Service - input parameter to set a max number of files processed

We are using the operation SFTPClientGet and the parameter RemoteFilePattern to do a multiple get. See the below example. We would like to have an input parameter allowing us to set a maximum number of files processed during one sftp get opera...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Scrubbing Feature

Today I have to use the Command Line Adapter to scrub the file by calling a custom script. It would be nice to have an out of the box scrubbing capability (e.g., replacing ! with | or removing all delimiters from a source file that could impact ED...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM Sterling Integrator (or SEAS/SSP) in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Integrator helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra anno...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Enable the audit log for ITX flows at the pre and post processor levels in Inflight.

When a ITX map is invoked as TX map if there is a fail function written in map then we get "AUDIT LOG" inflightBut when ITX map is invoked as xproc map if there is a fail function written in map then we do not get "AUDIT LOG" inflight. Please enab...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

API for Engine Config Push

Provide API to push configuration to engines. Same functionality as the "Push Config" button on the Monitoring->Engine Status (All) page on the UI.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Show actual SFTP error in status report

Sterling 6.0 and up, in some cases, has replaced useful, specific SFTP error messages in the status report with vague ones that require diving into logs to troubleshoot. For example, if the host key is wrong when connecting to a partner, this is w...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect