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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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Query that can provide a list of mailboxes that are not a part of any delete services

This report would provide us insight on mailboxes that need to be added to delete services. During onboards, there could be mistakes on adding mailboxes to delete services, and that way we know to update them.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

generate a PDF file with the images and tables using the details in the received input file.

PDF adapter needs more power to generate pdf files with images and tables using the data from the input file/message.
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Under review

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

Synchronous transaction support on B2B.io

B2B.io Use Case: Nobian has a use case where Partner(sender) will send the request to B2B.io, which will get delivered to partner (External/internal- third party- receiver)- the response from the partner to be delivered to the Sender in a synchron...
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Under review

B2Bi application should automatically sync with the system time during DST change, without application re-start

Currently, we are re-cycling the B2B SI application in-order to sync the application time with system time during Daylight Savings (DST). Customer is not happy to bounce the application for time change during DST, re-cyling the application is impa...
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

Keep Netmap CREATED, UPDATED, USED AS xNODE fields

There are inconsistencies with the logic of the NETMAP entry fields, CREATED, UPDATED, and USED AS xNODEs, as they can lose true history of the netmap entries. CREATED Date/Time stamp is lost on the netmap unload and load process and if $$REPLACE ...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future 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

modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Provide monitoring of Up/Down status for PEM components (PEM,PR,PP,PCM)

Partner Engagement Manager is a core component of a modernized Sterling stack and provides critical partner facing interfaces (both external and internal) that should be monitored. CCM should provide out of the box monitoring for UP/DOWN status an...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Planned for future release

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 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release