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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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InFlight PPID Business Field Filter Search

The Protocol Started >> Event Details Tab displays the PPID (Protocol Profile ID) for OB transactions in InFlight. It would be extremely useful if PPID was added to the 'Business Field' Search filter drop-down. This would allow Internal Supp...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 4 Planned for future release

SIP Compatibility with AWS OpenSearch

The SIP is currently compatible with Elasticsearch 7.17.9 and future fix packs. It leverages the Elasticsearch Java client version 7.17.28, which includes a built-in validation for the response header "X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch". This heade...
5 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Users should have the ability to produce an alert whenever Control Center loses connection to it's own database

Of course, whenever it loses connection to the DB it will not be able to write anything to the EVENTS table but when that connection is re-established, there should be some message written that indicates there's been a problem that we can monitor ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Assess and modify Sterling OMS to adhere to Kubernetes Application security controls and best practices for hardening applications to benefit IBM and other IBM customers.

To improve the availability, reliability, security, and scalable operations of OpenShift clusters and the applications that share them, enforcing K8s policies and best practices from Red Hat, Google, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a...

Capabilities to connect to Google Cloud Storage bucket

Currently there is no adapter or services which enables us to connect to a Google cloud storage bucket. It would be really good to have this functionality.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 3 Planned for future release

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments,

Displaying a different color in CTE and production for Config Center and Legacy Inflight to help support to differentiate both environments.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 5 Not under 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.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

multiple file uploads using myFileGateway

The myfile gateway file uploads happen one file at a time even though it allows us to select multiple files at the same time.
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 1 Functionality already exists

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flaw within CD/U when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/U initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/U via ALT.COMM path(s).
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 8

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release