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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...

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Disable Terminal SSH to Secure Proxy from External (Adapter)

We are currently running the latest version of Secure Proxy and are able to ssh (terminal) through the adapter to the SSP host. Although we are not able to login, it is an audit finding to prompt for credentials. Should simply close the session. I...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Removal of Outer join query in WORKFLOW_CONTEXT Table

The below SQL query is one of the important one to get output from DB Statistics report. However, from what we can see, we are not sure why the 2nd join with WORKFLOW_CONTEXT (WC2) is needed (see the yellow-highlight in the attached screenshot). I...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Passwords in csr create and csr update needs possibility to be encrypted

Below is a sample of the properties that need to be in the csr.properties file when using the GenCSR script in Sterling B2B Integrator provider=IBMJCE keystoretype=SCIKS certificate.request.Name=TestSystemCert11 algorithm=RSA signature.algorithm=s...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Cooperative Listener directory permissions

When Launcher starts in cooperative listener mode on RHEL servers a hidden directory is created under each watch point. That dir is named .WTX_<pid>_<hostname>. Each coop listener will have its own one of these hidden dirs. The dirs ar...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Submitted

null from JSON messages must not be treated as string "null"

When customer sends null for mandatory fields in a JSON message, this must be treated as empty field instead of string "null"
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Submitted

A set of SQL queries tied to the Activity Snapshot tool is creating an overhead on the database and could be effectively optimised.

We have an issue with the overhead of a specific set of SQLs in SFG 6.1.1.1. IBM confirmed that these queries have been looked at for version 6.1.1.3 but as we have no details of the changes, we’d like to create an Idea. These are the SQLs seen ru...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 0 Submitted

ITXA BulkEnvelopeDelete

When using the UI &/or BulkEnvelopeDelete to delete actual envelopes it also needs to cleanup the SPE_TRANSACTION_REGISTER table entries!!

ITXA need BulkCodelistDelete & BulkMapDelete

There is no BulkCodelistDelete or BulkMapDelete option to clean up old version of codelist or maps. The one for Envelopes is great where you can delete all or old, as well as providing a list if you so choose.

Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted