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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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MyFileGateway interaction when PEM/PCM is installed

This affects businesses who use "MyFileGateway" to allow their external customers to upload files. Have a customer need for MyFleGateway, when integrated with PEM/PCM to pull file transfer upload success/failure and/or routing information from PCM...
6 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Table admin_audit should log all SSH profile changes

Today, SI admin_audit table does not log any SSH profile changes. Requesting to including logging for SSH profile updates, deletions, and creates for auditing purposes.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Use Rest APIs as bulk file transfer mechanism. APIs to be shared with partners so they can push bulk files directly to B2B mailbox

Partners to push bulk files/messages directly to the mailbox Will be use like B2B Liberty API’s whereby partners will have to authenticate and then they should be able to do a basic upload “POST” to upload a file with a single http request. The AP...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Mask or Don't Include Passwords In Connect Direct Process Scripts that have been built in Connect Direct Web Services or Connect Direct Browser UI

Currently when a user builds a process in CDWS or CD Browser UI, the password is in plain text if a pnode/snode ID is used with password. This is a security vulnerability and should be addressed. We realize that there is no way to stop a user from...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Future consideration

TP Names Import/Export inbuilt option in Inflight

During testing phase in inflight CTE, we keep on adding TP names and when we go live we need to update the same to production (may be with different names sometimes). We have RPA Bot to add TP names to inflight, but if we have an inbuilt function ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0

Enhance the product to charge/settlement based on the authorized amount and authorization id mapping

The following is the issue scenario Line 1 – Authorized (individual auth id) along with shipping charge (Authorized -individual auth id). Shipped and invoiced Line 2 – Authorized with auth id. As part of the settlement, a single charge record is o...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration