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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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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...
about 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Putting a limit for number of files being transferred in some time

we have decided to apply a limit on few of the partners not to dump more than 1000 files in 30 minutes. Otherwise they keep on dumping tonns of files in very short time (like 20 to 30 mins) which ends up consuming all the resources by this partner...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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

SFG API service to update Known Host Key

The current infrastructure in our org has close to 50k SFTP remote profiles configured and for almost 30% of them the known host key has to be renewed every 3-6 months or so. The current API services do not allow updates to be made to a known host...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Unable to Export & Import the configurations from Customization UI page

We have number of configurations managed from Customization UI(such as properties files, custom jar's, custom protocols), we want to have an ability to export all those configurations and import into higher environments. This would help us speed u...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future consideration

Enhance Self-Service tool to view and update Server (agent/integration) JVM parameters in NextGen tenants like the Legacy tenants

We seem to have the lost the capablity to view and update JVM arguments because of introduction to server profiles in nextgen selft service tool. We should still have the capability to view and update any non-memory related parameters just like th...
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Enhanced control over the "reviewed" radio button in the B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI

The B2Bi Sterling Integrator UI enables users to view the current status of inbound and outbound file processing to target systems. As part of managing a production live service, we have encountered some issues whereby files have been incorrectly ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release