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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...
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...

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Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

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

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

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

Allow optional ODBC connection strings to allow DB connection encryption

My Database team would like to have all connections to the database encrypted, preferably at the application level, using the below: encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; It is currently not possible to supply this information using the DB Wi...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Functionality already exists

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

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...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Is a defect

ICC New datetime field - Custom API

The bank is trying to leverage the ICC SLC process to track whether a file has met its SLC.We are having applications (ie. SFG components and other custom applications) raising MQ events with time stamp to start and end SLC of a file.We then wrote...
over 5 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 0 Not under 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