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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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Being able to send large files up to 1 TB files

Would like the ability to send larges files up to 1TB in sizes. Currently ssp-engine has a limit in its ICAP configuration to 10 GB. This is too small for the use cases that my company will handling.
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Submitted

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review

Allow inventory supervisors the access to stop processing an SLC CR on behalf of the inventory team member that is currently processing the CR, but is out of the office.

It would be useful in the case of an inventory controller being out of the office and a site needs an SLC CR actioned ASAP. It would benefit the flow of production. All inventory supervisors would have access that would enable them to stop process...
12 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 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 ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Planned for future release

Test and certify Connect Direct to use DFS in addition to UNC paths

Connect Direct has not been tested nor certified to use DFS paths instead of UNC paths. The use of DFS paths allows Connect Direct copy configurations to automatically switch to a new device location vs the current use of UNC paths where we would ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

AWS Adapter Enhancements

Enhancement list for AWS adapter includes the following: 1) perimeter server support 2) begin/end session functionality 3) managing credentials in SFG profile (obscuring creds requires that a script is run on the credentials before entering into S...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

Add AS4 Protocol to Partner Community Manager

With planned addition of AS4 to the core Sterling B2b Integrator, we request that the Partner Community Manager be updated to add AS4 as a protocol in the application/partner configurations. Partner/Application screens should allow for AS4 partner...

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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration