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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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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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Is a defect

AI-Powered B2BI Tuning Recommender

IBM Sterling B2BI provides a wide range of configuration options to maximize performance. As file volumes increase due to business growth, manually identifying and applying the right tuning adjustments becomes complex and time-consuming. Currently...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 2 Not under consideration

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
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future 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...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

AWS S3 service to look specific folder files in a Bucket

In latest Sterling Integrator AWS S3 service is returning a list of files from all folders in a bucket, there is no option to look for a specific folder files . It would really help customer if IBM considers this enhancement request and get it dev...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 8 Future consideration

Historical data needed for ICD-10 Diagnosis codes

Reference Case: TS020156791, TS014894344 ICD10 code sets (T5_896 and T5_897) was enhanced in year 2023 to include start and end dates for multiple fiscal years. This was done at the request of Deloitte case TS014894344, and it was decided then to ...
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 0 Under review

Migrate all files from an old SI Documents to new repository

When SI property jdbcService.document_dir is updated, new files are stored on the new location, but existing files remain on the previously configured location. There is no functionality to migrate data from old to new location. This is an enhance...
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Enable file exchange access to IBM Sterling Global High Availability Mailbox with Connect:Direct

Connect:Direct has the ability to transfer files using several application files storage platforms such as local files, NFS, S3, and others. This could be extended to support direct access to B2B Integrator mailboxes and, in particular, to Global ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement request for SIP support on AWS Keyspaces

We are requesting an enhancement to enable support for Sterling Integration Platform (SIP) on AWS Keyspaces. Currently, SIP is not certified to run on AWS Keyspaces, which limits deployment flexibility for cloud-native architectures. SIP is certif...
6 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration