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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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Displaying all Map names in inflight

inflight always shows only one map name (Translation map) even though there are multiple maps involved in the flow. In large scale projects, where is the flow is complex, we tend to use more maps to satisfy the requirements of the Customer/Partner...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

RE: 64 Character Limitation In Email section on SI User Accounts

Hi Team, We noticed that there is a 64 character length limitation in email section on SI user accounts, please check the attached screenshot for better understanding to what I'm referring to. 64 character length limitation is not sufficient for o...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Require MEIG to perform certificate matching on unique values

In a scenario where multiple CA certificates having the same value for the DN Subject parameter exist in the database, MEIG can retrieve the wrong CA certificate and cause a valid Trading Partner certificate to incorrectly be interpreted as invali...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

DEVOPS deployment to LINUX servers

Devops has been around for a while, with automated testing and deployment. WTX should provide tool to auto deploy (similar to map build). This would take the PC tested map and allow it to be deployed to a server for further testing in a LINUX envi...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

CyberArk AAM Integration

We use CyberarkAAM with CCP to manage system to system logins, and have a requirement for rotating passwords. Currently no where in SBI (properties files, sandbox, partner setups, etc) has the ability to setup outbound connections with rotating pa...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

TP Names Import/Export inbuilt option in Inflight

During testing phase in inflight CTE, we keep on adding TP names and when we go live we need to update the same to production (may be with different names sometimes). We have RPA Bot to add TP names to inflight, but if we have an inbuilt function ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0