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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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Disable inventory safety factor on distribution group level

Currently, there is no option to ignore inventory safety factor when set on node level and configured in global inventory visibility. The option to disable safety factors on distribution group level would be beneficial in order to be able to monit...
12 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 5 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
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Planned for future release

Better reporting of type 5 errors when code set table not valid in database

Currently, when a table name that doesn't exist in the database, we receive a generic Type 5 error in tack file indicating that the value from the input file is not in database. This can be misleading and make it difficult to pinpoint the root cau...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

During SPE Enveloping service ISA & GS control number not getting incremented when a file has both Good and Bad transaction sets.

Issue Description:- We have integrated ITX with ITXA and calling Envelopes from ITXA by using SPE adapter in ITX rule. In the EDI Message, If we have a good transaction set as well as bad transaction set. The envelope is not being added to the EDI...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Update GPM to work with Windows11

The GPM (Graphical Process Modeler) is not working with my new laptop that has Windows11 operating system.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 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

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...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 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