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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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Enable customizable Notification messages

We often get request from users to get notified when certain message is received via EDI. Or, when certain message is being delivered to the partner (e.g. for SLA measurements for Supplier scorecard etc). So, similar to Search in Inflight, we woul...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 1 Not under consideration

Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Create alert if the adapters do not come up after SI server comes back up.

It is critical for us when the SI app server comes up after being down or after patching to know if the required MQ adapters, Http server and Http Client adapters come up as expected. We want to be alerted if the MQ adapters and HTTP Server and HT...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Enable smart card login in myfilegateway

Since many companies use smart card login for security reasons, it was a good idea allow partners to login to myfilegateway using these method
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Stream data for excel adapter

According to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ITX-I-27, it is mentioned that the excel and pdf adapters can handle stream data while integrating with B2Bi or ITXA. However as per the case TS014440463, there is a limitation for excel adapter to read fro...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Functionality already exists

Google Drive Integration Adapter Service

To enable Sterling Integrator with the capabilities to handle Google Drive services using the out of box Sterling Adapter Services. Which enables to track, manage and handle the Google drive integration easier like other protocol specific file tra...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

CyberArk AAM Integration

We use CyberarkAAM with CCP to manage system to system logins, and have a requirement for rotating passwords. Currently no where in SBI (properties files, sandbox, partner setups, etc) has the ability to setup outbound connections with rotating pa...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Multiple Host Key availability for partners.

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 than RSA (ECDSA) while other vendors d...
7 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted