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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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Latest SAPJCo version required for fast serialization to SAP Adapter configuration for ISOVER

ISOVER (SGCIO) one of the major customer of IBM in B2B, wants to change the connection from C:D to S4 HANA but the ISOVER's SAP admin team feels that when IBM upgrades the SAP adapter with latest SapJCo, the current serialization / connection issu...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Enhance B2B Mail Client Adapter to support IMAP with OAuth 2.0 to connect gmail for Google workspace account

Google Workspace accounts will no longer support less secure apps, third-party apps or devices that ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. to access apps, you must use OAuth2
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

Include Group Sender / Group Receiver ID's as configurable columns in Standard InFlight Reports

Inbound/outbound data activity and trading partner summary reports in InFlight portals tracks at Interchange level (ISA or UNB level) only. We would like to see Group ID's (GS or UNG) available in InFlight UI so that user can select those columns ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Include ExtraInfo 1, 2 & 3 as configurable columns in Standard InFlight Activity Reports

We would like to see an option in InFlight UI to select ExtraInfo 1, 2 & 3 as configurable columns in InFlight activity reports
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

RE: 64 Character Limitation In Email section on SI User Accounts

Hi Team, We noticed that there is a 64 character length limitation in email section on SI user accounts, please check the attached screenshot for better understanding to what I'm referring to. 64 character length limitation is not sufficient for o...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Future 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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Validate content of file uploads on dashboard

Sterling Integrator was flagged on recent PenTest due to the fact that it allows any type of file to be uploaded on dashboard, ie as bp primary document, maps, xslts, etc. Case TS016869403 confirmed that currently only mailboxes can restrict file ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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.
6 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 7 Future consideration

Need for a B2B Integrator MONITORING  REST API

Need for a B2B Integrator REST API to return the following counts: *Number of Active, Halted, Waiting, Interrupted BPs. * Database usage KPIs : used space and free space. * Queue Depth. * Heap usage
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release