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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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Archive post processed/ Final delivery payload in the Inflight

In the archive process on SCBN, Currently we are archiving original input data and output data from the translation step. But we are expecting final output data which is delivered to partner after all post-processing steps in the flow instead of t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Integration with Azure Entra ID for user authentication

User authentication support with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML 2.0 in the Sterling B2B Integrator product, for integration with Azure Entra ID.Not just LDAP support.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

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.
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 6 Planned for future release

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

Calculate and publish Inventory Availability Based on Item Assigned Attribute Changes

Existing inventory availability calculations do not automatically adjust to changes in custom item attributes ( ItemAssignedAttribute ) leading to potential inaccuracies in stock levels and order fulfillment. For example, if the department value i...
about 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release