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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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SFG with PGP setup page with always trust option

My customer(KBANK Thailand) would like to use SFG with PGP and do not want to accept always trust when the customer would like to onboard the new their clients. My customer do not want to accept always trust by manual way. So need IBM File Gateway...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Add CRL caching support to Connect:Direct z/OS v6.1

We have started to use CRL checking in CDZ via EASERVER and urgently need CRL caching to be in effect similar to what has been implemented for Windows/Linux platforms.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable item and node combination for specific DGs

We need an ability to disable item and node combination for some specific DGs in IV whereas for other DGs this Item and Node Combination should be enabled. Currently IV does not seem to support this feature.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to generate CDT differences between two CDT Full export and apply the differences to a target environment

Configuration differences to largely automate migration of differential configuration from a lower work stream to a higher work stream without re-typing. Configuration differences to automate removal of configuration from a higher work stream if i...
almost 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 2 Future consideration

Ability to correlate deferred documents with the ST control number assigned to them at time of enveloping

For each document that we process and defer, we lose track of the specific control numbers that are assigned at the time of enveloping. For instance, if you defer 5 separate documents at various times and later run enveloping, we need a method to ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

SI to capture trading partner’s SSL cert automatically

In SI, for HTTPS connections, the trading partner’s SSL certs are required to be checked into SI beforehand. And whenever their partner upgrades their certs, client will need to do manually update SI. Since client has many trading partners, this b...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SFTP Protocol Strict Host Key = 0

Whirlpool is requesting IBM SCBN be able to configure their SFTP connection without strict host key requirement. This is part of their High Availability Architecture plan. All of their vendors except IBM is able to meet this requirement.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Future consideration

Looking to have the "Both" authentication option added to Partner creation/edit in File Gateway.

Currently when we have an external customer connect to us using sftp our sftp authentication method requires that someone go into B2Bi User Accounts and select the "Both" option for authentication type. This requires admin access which we would pr...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Ability to upgrade past Java version 8

There are security vulnerabilities with Java version 8 and the application should have the ability to support upgrades to newer version of Java such as V11 or V15.
almost 3 years ago in OMS - Configure, Price, Quote 0 Future consideration