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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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Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Multiple Host Key availability for partners.

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 than RSA (ECDSA) while other vendors d...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

We have refresh netmap in Mainframe Connect Direct and its not available in Linux connect direct

We had an issue with connect direct process, In the middle of file transfer client brought down the connect direct in primary server and brought up in the secondary. Since the process was interrupted and its keep retrying the primary server. Its n...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

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

Control Center Monitor should alert us when connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server

We want to be alerted by Control Center Monitor if connectivity is lost between SI and MQ server.
3 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Under review

Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka.

Sterling Out of box integration with Kafka Case number TS002842262 Description WSI is moving to Kafka for all the asyn messaging process from current JMS(Tibco EMS). We are looking at Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka. A...
about 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 15 Planned for future release

Store more than 10 data fields

Often we have scenarios where SFG Solution uses external database tables. These tables can have any number of columns. When PEM activities are customized to collect data from sponsor/partner for the table and if the number of columns is more than ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Enhance speremove-packs.sh script to remove entries from the database

Right now, we have speremove-packs.sh script, which can remove the ITXA packs-related files from the File System, and it does not remove entries from the database. In the existing process if a customer wants to remove ITXA pack entries from the da...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

be able to create a single new user through REST API

Make it possible to add a new user in the User Store using Rest API.
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Transfers via SFTP to External Mainframe Application (Vendor : DTCC)

IBM Team, We have currently are transfer files to our external vendor DTCC mainframe application via Connect Direct protocol. DTCC has changed the requirement to transfer via SFTP instead of Connect Direct to their mainframe end point. How can the...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration