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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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B2Bi Sterling Integrator generating invalid delivery status in the application UI following deadlock

In April 2024 an external client submitted a payment file into the B2Bi Sterling Integrator product within my production environment. The file routed and delivered successfully to the remote target system, and the payment file processed through th...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Needs more information

Inflight API Response with all columns/fields which are visible under Inflight UI

Few Customers having the usecases like they need information from other columns for the Inflight API Response along with SenderID,ReceiverID,DocumentType and received time and sent time, because they need other info as well like Reference Number, ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Planned for future release

YFS_PAYMENT entity, TOTAL_CHARGED column data type is limited to Decimal(15,2). Please update to Decimal(15,3)

YFS_PAYMENT entity, TOTAL_CHARGED column data type is limited to Decimal(15,2). Processed amount value more than 3 digits is rounded to 2 which is causing finance discrepancies. For Kuwait and Bahrain markers 1= 1000 Phils which is causing loss of...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

PGP Encryption/Decryption of a file with multiple recipients

Trading Partners may encrypt a file using multi-recipient encryption. For instance, they may encrypt a file with our Public PGP key as well as their own key. When we receive that file, we should be able to decrypt using our private key. Symantec a...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Monitoring SEAS/SSP certificates

For now, Control Center Monitor able to monitor the certificates in CD and ICC certificates. It will be useful if we can monitor the B2Bi SEAS and SSP certificates also.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

ITX - Allow MapTrace to continue after first error

Currently, the MapTrace halts/stops after the first error is encountered. This makes debugging issues and correcting input data difficult, as only one error can be fixed at a time, then the file needs to be re-run to check if there are any other f...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 4 Needs more information

Allow System Certificates to work the same as CA Certificate groups

Currently when we generate a new System Certificate and want to install it to our HTTP Server Adapters, we need to take our environment down and schedule/coordinate the change of the certificates with all our AS2 customers. Not an easy task given ...
6 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 8 Future consideration

Mask or Don't Include Passwords In Connect Direct Process Scripts that have been built in Connect Direct Web Services or Connect Direct Browser UI

Currently when a user builds a process in CDWS or CD Browser UI, the password is in plain text if a pnode/snode ID is used with password. This is a security vulnerability and should be addressed. We realize that there is no way to stop a user from...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network)

There is a requirement from customer to have Secure Connection between Secure Proxy Engine (in DMZ) and SSP Perimeter Server (in Secure Network).
over 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Future consideration