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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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Stop the default 10 rows of data in the Edge UI returning to the default after choosing another value to display more rows.

If will be useful to anyone using the UI interface where it will save them having to choose another value again after selecting it previously when returning to the 'front' screen/display.
18 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Future consideration

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

Expand the Smart Review code so it works for Dow data

The Smart Review feature does not work for Dow. We believe that this feature would increase the efficiency of work queue recommendation reviews, which are all manual by a Reliability Engineer and Inventory Coordinator.
7 days ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

Support HSMs including Cloud HSMs in container versions of SSP

Financial services customer have regulatory requirements to use HSMs for certificate storage. In order for them to migrate to containers it is an absolute must that the container version of the products should support the same HSMs as the non-cont...
13 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Support VAST Storage S3 implementation

Customers who have chosen VAST Data's storage platform need to be able to read and write using the S3 APIs from SFG/B2Bi. The B2Bi Object Storage adapter needs to be certified for use with VAST's implementation of S3 (https://www.vastdata.com/blog...
15 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Need more access methods other than SAS token in transfer from Sterling Integrator to Azure Blob Storage

We are currently looking into the options for the Sterling to Blob write options with the newly available Object Store Client Adapter as mentioned below. Object Store Client Adapter - IBM Documentation With the setup provided in the guidance, we c...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 5 Future consideration

Enhance QueueWatcher to support SASL_SSL including JAAS config with credentials

We have been waiting for several years for the ability to capture and store QueueWatcher data. However, in version 6.2, we are unable to access QueueWatcher metrics due to a limitation in SASL_SSL support. I have already raised a case with IBM Sup...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration