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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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Saving preferences on transaction view

Possibility to save preferences such as: Keeping columns in the view Number of transactions on a page Number of attributes in attribute view As it is now, it all resets everytime the log is left and revisited.
about 1 year ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Future consideration

RestAPIs support to Create/Update and Delete MAP Files

This will help us to include Maps for our CICD Pipeline where we are updating B2Bi Assets using B2Bi RestAPIs.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Provision to store Node Availability during release creation for future reference and insights on actual stock position used during allocation

Currently post release (during back-end fulfillment process), Sterling has no insights on the stock position for that item on the node during release creation. Hence it is difficult to reconcile or justify instances where Store and DCs have repo...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 5 Future consideration

Addition of RSASSA-PSS signing algorithm to IBM Sterling Integrator B2B

This singing algorithm was requested by a partner that we trade EDI messages with. They provided us with their new AS2 OCES3 certificate, which used RSASSA-PSS as the signing algorithm. What resulted was that we were able to transmit file but we n...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 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

Monitoring SSP authorization through SCC

Hi Team, One of my client has a requirement to monitor and generate a report which gives the details of users who initiated a connection to SSP.It should capture both successful and unsuccessful attempts along with the username. Currently, the onl...
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 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
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Request for Enhancement to Support Korean Legal Audit Requirements

As per Korean government legal requirements, we have received a request to provide an audit and data report covering user activity and actions performed in the KR region over the past three years, in alignment with internal compliance and security...
7 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Ability to configure Quick Notifications for critical transactions in processing state

Priority High Ask Ability to configure Quick Notifications for critical transactions . Details of Ask Currently, we do not have any tool that allows us to configure alerts or notifications with an interval shorter than 30 minutes. ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Future consideration