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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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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...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Enhance security and stability bu introducing Customer level session limit to safeguard performance.

The Proposal is to introduce customer level session rate limiting in SSP to enhance stability and security. We can add a enhancement by monitoring session creation rates per customer- identified bu login ID, certificate or IP-SSP can enforce confi...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Enable support for AWS S3 Server Side Encryption on S3 Buckets

We need B2Bi AWS S3 Client Service adapter to support AWS S3 Server Side Encryption.
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future 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

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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Future consideration

Replacing LDAP with ISVG

In our company we are replacing LDAP with other security, for IBM Sterling also we need to replace LDAP with ISVG, I raised case for this and told ISVG is not tested with IBM Sterling SEAS product, As we need to replace LDAP with ISGV, Could you p...

Optimization to database queries for MailboxEvaluateAllRoutingRules

Applies to MSSQL (and likely other Database platforms) Performance of a core DB Query behind MailboxEvaluateAllAutomaticRules needs to be improved. Current queries as of 6.2 are expensive on Memory and TempDB usage and periodically run into perfor...
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Submitted

Set the jco.client.snc_sso=0 when SNC is enabled and password based authendication is used.

Solargard one of the customer of IBM in B2B, wants to connect to IBM through SAP Adapter connection.During connection we could not send the file to Solargard and whatever files Solargard sent was not received at IBM.So after analyzing the logs it ...

User based data limit policy

When the same data limit policy is applied to various users, the inbound traffic byte counter is the sum of all the users included in the policy. So if one of them is reaching the limit. All the users of the policy are affected. Please, conside...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Needs more information