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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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Restrict user permission (Read/Write/Download etc) in SFG MyFiles for Sterling File Partners

This would help ensure clients have proper user permissions (Read, Write, Download etc) in SFG MyFile 2.0. This gives a level of security on that account if that account should only download files or read files.
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

In-Flight Multi-file download button

This will effect all front-line support, mapping and any other support agents using In-flight. Right now, in order to download all files attached to a transmission, the agents have to manually download one by one. If it's possible, adding a downlo...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Allow System Certificates to work the same as CA Certificate groups

Currently when we generate a new System Certificate and want to install it to our HTTP Server Adapters, we need to take our environment down and schedule/coordinate the change of the certificates with all our AS2 customers. Not an easy task given ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 10 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 5 Future consideration

Implement an audit history to show updates that are made to rules, data uploads, etc.

Useful to see when updates are made to rules, who makes the updates, what the old settings were, and what the new settings are.
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Hold being applied during OrderCreate with Status as resolved

When an order is created it is sent through logic to determine fraud. The logic sets the fraud hold as either created (active) or resolved (inactive). Sterling is not looking at the status of the hold and putting the hold in a created(active) stat...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Modifying dp-config-batch-import script

https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ000000pF0EQAU/dpconfigbatchimport?language=en_US
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Data Power 1 Needs more information

Perimeter Server Monitoring

Please add alerting in Control Center Monitor if Perimeter Server/Servers is/are down when SI comes back up. Currently there are events generated if Perimeter Server goes from enabled to disabled status and connected to disconnected status when SI...
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Usability 0 Under review