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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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Supported encryption keys - ssh-ed25519

My customer will need to integrate with 80 other banks via SFTP, but one of the types of Hostkey that other bank's uses isto ed25519, but B2B does not support it. This ed25519 key will soon be used a lotthis key is becoming common. I tried it thro...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 2 Delivered

SSH User Identity Key > 2,048 bit

Partner ask to generate a auth key of 4,096-bit or larger, however Sterling menu doesn't allow for any key size except 1,024, 1,536 or 2,048. Also, there does not appear to be a documented and supported method to generate a key pair using a comman...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Delivered

mailbox messageid and PrimaryDocument at AWS S3 custom protocol

During AWS S3 custom protocol, at delivery side (consumer) AWSS3 client service is not getting primary document. to provide primary document to AWS S3 service, we need to define logic like below <assign to="PrimaryDocument" from="/ProcessData/P...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway 0 Delivered

Improve diagnostic accuracy of Secure+ error messages

We often get Secure+ error messages (prefix CSPA) that don’t necessarily indicate a Secure+ issue. This makes it difficult to monitor for errors. The error messages that have caused us the most difficulty are: CSPA202E SSL handshake failure, re...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Delivered

Cognos using ICC issued certificate

We are required to use certificates issued by Boeing Certificate Authority and not the certificate that is generated by ICC.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Delivered

IV to publish Inventory record for inventory audit

The OMS published Inventory Audit in OMS DB but after Inventory is moved to IV this capability is missing . The Inventor audit is crucial for an organization to understand the flow and how it affects OMS order life cycle.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Certificate-based authentication support for Connect:Direct RESTful API

Connect:Direct Java API supports certificate-based authentication. IBM Sterling Control Center also can use certificate-based authentication to connect and manage Connect:Direct settings. However latest version of RESTful API supports only user/pa...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered

Should be able to import ED25519 format remote SFTP host keys

This functionality would allow B2B Integrator to manage SFTP file transfer activities with trading partners who are using ED25519 format remote host keys.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 8 Delivered

Support for Windows Server 2022

Would like to request getting support for Windows Server 2022 as soon as possible please.

Connect:Direct with ability to connect to IBM Cloud Object Storage using API key and store files on COS

The request is mainly for providing capability in Connect:Direct for reading and writing files from IBM Cloud Object Storage and specifically by using API key while connecting to IBM COS from Connect:Direct.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Delivered