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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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Expose Max Stops property at API request level instead of currently as static, system wide

This will improve performance when running findInventory and other sourcing APIs. A high value of Max Stops has a significant performance impact so having the ability to dynamically set this property at API request level will add a lot of value.
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 7 Future consideration

Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs

Currently we see that there is no Swagger UI for Sterling External Authentication Server APIs. We need to extensively use the APIs for adding changing any configuration in SEAS rather than manually doing the same and with no Swagger UI for SEAS m...

Support for token authentication

Some of REST APIs for IBM products have token authentication implemented. I.e., call a sign in API to get a token, and then use the token in a HTTP Header for all other API calls. Example Products: IBM Sterling Secure Proxy: https://www.ibm.com/su...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 3 Planned for future release

Configuring the SEAS to only respond with (UserID & Destination Indicator) in response to SSP and forward the Authentication request (Password/SSH Key) aganist/to Sterling integrator local store?

The process/flow will follow the below steps from (User to SSP to SEAS to SI) Step 1 - User Authentication request comes from SSP layer to SEAS; Step 2 - SEAS validates the user against connected AD and return only "UserID/Username && Dest...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Provide monitoring of Up/Down status for PEM components (PEM,PR,PP,PCM)

Partner Engagement Manager is a core component of a modernized Sterling stack and provides critical partner facing interfaces (both external and internal) that should be monitored. CCM should provide out of the box monitoring for UP/DOWN status an...
12 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Planned for future release

Add B2Bi REST API audit logs

B2Bi Rest API is becoming common in several solutions but there is not a proper audit log file or report to verify information like " USER - ACTION / API - TIMESTAMP" It is difficult to understand what is actually being consumed, by whom and how o...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

SNMP V3 support for webMethods

Need SNMP V3 support for webMethods.
2 months ago in webMethods Active Transfer 0 Submitted

SFG File Size column in Activity

When looking at 'Routes' > 'Activity', one can right-click the column headings and add the 'Size'. However, there is no way to save this setting and it disappears once you log off and log back in. I opened Case TS015174429 and they responded wi...
10 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 1 Planned for future release

Containers should support logging to filesystem, console, or both.

Our containers need to be configurable via helm to log to either a persistent volume, the console, or both. A lot of our containers today support either console or persistent volume but do not allow both at the same time.
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release