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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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SSO SAML assertion and OIDC support and MFA implementation

SAML assertion and OIDC protocols implemented in IBM B2Bi so we can switch from use of LDAP to SSO setup for user authentication. Also we need to implement MFA for user authentication since the application is approved for use with restricted file ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Internal system required certificates prevention

We received the alert for expired certificate in email. We mistakenly removed the expired document encryption cert doccrypto2. After we worked with the support and we found out this cert is required and even it is expired. Our problem is if this i...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Under review

Latest SAPJCo version required for fast serialization to SAP Adapter configuration for ISOVER

ISOVER (SGCIO) one of the major customer of IBM in B2B, wants to change the connection from C:D to S4 HANA but the ISOVER's SAP admin team feels that when IBM upgrades the SAP adapter with latest SapJCo, the current serialization / connection issu...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Future consideration

Enhance B2B Mail Client Adapter to support IMAP with OAuth 2.0 to connect gmail for Google workspace account

Google Workspace accounts will no longer support less secure apps, third-party apps or devices that ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password. to access apps, you must use OAuth2
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 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
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release

encryption of passwords in setup.cfg

There are multiple passwords mentioned in the file setup.cfg - database, truststore, test mode, etc. these passwords are expected to be encrypted as per customers security requirements. Currently these are in plaintext.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

GPM (Graphical Process Modeler)

The current version of GPM does not function with the current Java SDK levels. The last valid Java JDK is Java 1.8.0_281. This fails to meet current Java versions for vulnerability issues. As a result, many will have to justify the need to run an ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 8 Functionality already exists

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration