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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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Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Control the Business process scheduler execution timing by timezone

We are a global organization and have our B2Bi server installed in PST but have jobs scheduled to run in EST, PST, GMT, AEST, BST, etc. Currently we do not have a way to pick and choose the timezone for the BPs to get triggered. It defaults to the...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

API and Events to provide Fulfillable Availability (available quantity that are fulfillable) by doing sourcing rule discovery to get distribution group or nodes or node types to generate network availability

Omnichannel Retailers would require to show what is the available quantity that are fulfillable to their customers based on where they are getting it delivered to / collected from (regional sourcing), what are the various product attributes (such ...
12 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

MRS equivalent for ITX

For the SI maps, there are MRS which help to get the latest mapping document from the code. Now that we are implementing ITX maps, we need a MRS equivalent for ITX.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Add ability to adjust periods used in calculating issue size

Since we have a great deal of historical data in the tool, I would like to be able to adjust the time period used in calculating the issue quantity, much as I can control how many usage periods are included in the forecast. For one example we look...
4 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

Within BPML, SFTPClient operation set needs a way to check status of an active session: introduce SFTPClientSessionStatus call.

One fundamental problem is that sometimes the SFTP Session will inadvertently end mid-operation, perhaps closed by server. When this happens, an operation call like SFTPClientList or SFTPClientPut will simply fault. It will return a SessionEndTime...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

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

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Rest API - General

From Home Depot: Currently, Control Center cannot re-start the adapters unless it is done through the use of scripts. The available mechanism, as of now is, invoking an OS script (when a rule is triggered), and the OS script in-turn can invoke any...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Increase large file content to more than 16k

The limit on file content in transaction view is quite low. Can it be possible to get a setting for this instead?
12 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Not under consideration