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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...
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...

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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...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Environment field on Client Adapters on containerized installation

Currently All ASI nodes available as environment to choose to run on nodes independently only for specific client adapters on containerized installation of B2BI. This should be made available at least on FTP, SFTP and HTTP Client adapters as in th...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Enhance Document Tracking Tool by adding new fields for Certificate management to view expiry and update it

Currently there is no options for the essential customers to view and update the certificate, which creates delay, and failures in case the customer is not reachable on time. Below are the existing fields. Currently we have Document Tracking Tool ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 2 Needs more information

Add SASL/JAAS support to Kafka EDI Visibility

Enabling SASL/JAAS support for Kafka EDI Visibility is critical for integrating with secure enterprise environments that enforce authentication and encryption standards. Many organizations use SASL/JAAS to comply with internal security policies an...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

Support for Odette protocol (OFTP)

In Brazillian market we have a lot customers that are using file transfer based on OFTP (Odette), so because of that, to have more SSP deployed we need to implement this protocol in the SSP.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

SSH host Key only allowing dsa and rsa

One of our 3rd parties mentioned that they were planning on doing a change to Host Key Algorithms to allow rsa-sha2-512 rsa-sha2-256 As more clients are moving to secure host keys we would prefer to have this option
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

The ability for B2B Integrator to auto accept host keys

At present, we manually accept host keys whenever they are updated by external servers. We would like the B2B integrator to automatically accept these host key changes.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration