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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...
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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...
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Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio.
22 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Submitted

Support service mesh for container deployments

This is a mandated requirement for clients deployment in production environments, in this case to support a service mesh by Istio especially the Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh implementation: https://istio.io/latest/about/service-mesh/
22 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

Enabel console logging on SSP and SEAS - Container base Deployment

Within SSP & SEAS helm chart Values we do not see any configurable option to have our SSP/SEAS Application level logs to be enable on POD console. For reference We have this option available in SI help chart "logs.enableAppLogOnConsole" this s...
22 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Problem Statement: ATP Calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request ship date

Here is the detailed scenario. Problem Statement:ATP calculation is not able to exclude future demand beyond request Ship date. ​ IV- ATP Calculation – Additional Scenarios​ Current Date: 25 July 2025 (Day 1) & Consider Future...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Add ITX ACHIVE(ZIP) Adapter support on ITXA.

We are using ITXA for ITX map processing and there was an expectation that ITXA supports all ITX Adapters. However, that is not the case, as we recently discovered that ITXA does not support ZIP Adapter use in our ITX maps when run on ITXA. Althou...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Submitted

Dynamic Date Range Filter in Scheduled ICC Reports

Description: We request an enhancement to IBM Control Centre(ICC) to allow dynamic date range filtering for scheduled reports—specifically, the ability to configure the Event Date/Time filter to automatically include data from the last X days(>...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted

Document Object Storage for Connect Direct Adapter

as documented on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=container-document-service there is object storage available for most of the adapters but not C:D. this is the main roadblock from stopping us from adopting Object storage for...
28 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

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