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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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USER Management API

Development of an API that can create and update user account, roles, and set permissions. An API of this nature would allow IT Management programs such as Saviynt to dynamically control user access within the application based on client's own Ide...
4 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Need SSL/TLS support for Global Mailbox to post its events to Control Center

Most other connections are firmly secured in B2Bi/SFG/GM, with one significant exception; the ability to post events and heartbeats from Global Mailbox to Control Center (ICC or CCM). By default, CCM 6.2 disables its non-secure web port, 58082. Si...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Add more Ciphers for SSH to security.properties supported by JDK8

Please enable the following Ciphers: diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 diffie-hellman-group15-sha512 diffie-hellman-group16-sha512 rsa2048-sha256 AEAD_AES_128_GCM AEAD_AES_256_GCM hmac-sha11 hmac-sha2-512 Kind Regards
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

ITXA - GET multiple codelist columns at once

In Sterling Integrator, we are currently able to pull multiple columns from a code list entry in one SELECT statement, as below: SELECT SenderCode, TEXT1, TEXT2 INTO VAR_SENDERCODE,VAR_TEXT1,VAR_TEXT2 FROM CODELIST WHERE NAME = "DSV_STD_EXCEED_RP_...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Future consideration

Allow External Authentication without create a local user

An user created for example in AD can use the SBI console (or ICC, SSP ...), only with external authentication, not being necessary to create a local user in Sterling. In other platforms the client has, the users just need register in AD, are assi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

In advanced search option In InFlight please add feature for checking the InFlight entries giving the protocol profile ID.

In case if an existing connection to TP or customer is having multiple flows running using the same connections then with this suggested idea one can easily list entire flows in single search option. So this suggested option will be helpful in lis...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Not under consideration

SFTP Error Reporting

With SI v6.0 and above the error reporting to SFTP has changed, with earlier versions we used to get clear failure messages like 'Known host keys mismatch', etc, whereas now we get more of a generic message like 'SSH_DISCONNECT_BY_APPLICATION:SFTP...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect