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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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Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
14 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 Moduli min bits

As diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 typically used a minimum of 2048 bits for the key size. However for the stronger security, it's recommended to use 3072 bits or even 4096 in SSP. However, we can't change the min bits of moduli in SSP to ful...
9 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

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...

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Submitted

Maximum Logins per user sessions settings configuration in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Adaptor level

Currently in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy configuration manager at adapter level there is configuration for Maximum Sessions. We are looking for configuration for Maximum Logins" per user.
19 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Active Transfer SFTP Pre-Hooks Support

Enhancement in Active Transfer Server to support SFTP GET and PUT pre-hooks. This will enable the users to perform preparatory actions such as file validation, logging or other security checks, before the file transfer occurs. Pre-hooks to be able...
19 days ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

MFT Zero Trust Architecture Support

To achieve zero trust architecture in MFT scenarios, customer wants JWT support for authentication & authorization where scope needs to be handled outside of MFT solution and should be dynamic where a scope for a user/connection changes, MFT s...
20 days ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

"Read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups

It would be interesting for our business model to have a "read-only" option in the actions menu of Active Transfer for user groups. This way, they can see what is in the menu but cannot make any changes. There are "read-only" options in various pa...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed

It would be interesting if the Active Transfer logs had an option to record the actions performed on files and folders in the Web Client, such as copying, pasting, deleting, cloning, or moving to another location. This would allow us to have a rec...
about 1 month ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted