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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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Officially support EBICS v3.0.2

The EBICS org published a revised specification for v3.0 on June 27th 2022 to replace previous versions (3.0.0 and 3.0.1) with effect from December 30th 2022. All customers wanting to use EBICS v3 in the IBM EBICS Server and Client must be able to...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 3 Future consideration

Enablement of SSH Certificates

Sterling B2B leverages SSH Keys for SFTP file transfers and OpenSSH to faciliate this. I would like to see it enable the ability to use SSH Certificates. SSH Certificates provide significant increase in security as opposed to SSH keys.
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 6 Future consideration

Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Enable Notifications of CHUB Map Transfers

When a map is transferred or assigned to a new person, we would like them to receive a notification the map has been transferred to them. For example, when the developer finishes the map and assigns it for the reviewer, the reviewer would receive ...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 2 Future consideration

SSH Support Through SSP As A Forward Proxy

During recent joint discussions a gap in the SSP protocol stack has been identified whereby outbound SSH connections (i.e. supporting SFTP and SCP) are not supported. In order to enforce a More Secure to Less Secure network, whereby the network ho...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

Improve Control Center Rule Administration

In Control Center 6.2 rule administration can only be done via the Web console. If a new rule or an existing rule is updated that contains a list of servers, there is not a pick list. There is a search, but each server the user wants to select can...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 1 Future consideration

Need Connect Direct supported on IBM's own ppc64le architecture in the OpenShift environment.

As the industry is moving to containerization, and IBM is pushing hard to sell their Cloud Paks, we are hoping that they can see the importance of supporting their own software on their own products they are pushing. We are starting to do much con...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

RTAM - Cannot run RTAM in multi threaded mode

Refer this PMR - https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001FdfZAAAZ/service-to-execute-on-completion-of-work-in-agent-runtime-properties-does-not-work-in-multi-threaded-mode Let me consider a scenario here Total Records - 13000 Max Record ...
almost 7 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

On the Code (List) Info form, put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data fields much wider

Please put Text1 thru Text9 on their own lines and make the data entry field as wide, or wider, than the size of the Description data entry field.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

Ability To Test Actions

After setting up an Action, you are unable to test it without adding it to a rule, and then manually triggering the rule. This is very time consuming when you're trying to verify configuration of the action. I would like there to be a test button ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Future consideration