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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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ITXA should show functions while doing the mapping in ITXA window the moment we start typing the function.

Right now, while doing the mapping, for every function we want to use we have to manually type that function regardless of the length of that function and this causes issues if even one character is wrong or absent in the function. What I want is ...

When Events are producing using Kafka adapter need acknowledgement as response.

When Events are produced using Kafka adapter needs acknowledgement like the respective offset number and partition number in Kafka broker.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 0 Submitted

security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true needs to be added into the security.properties.in file

per IBM - There is a technote that indicates security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true be added to the customer_overrides specifically to ignore OID errors caused by certificates with attributes not supported by the Certicom jar files which SI use...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

null from JSON messages must not be treated as string "null"

When customer sends null for mandatory fields in a JSON message, this must be treated as empty field instead of string "null"
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 1 Submitted

Support STARTTLS SMTP

Our system implemented the use of STARTTLS SMTP and we cannot send emails from SFG
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

Removal of Outer join query in WORKFLOW_CONTEXT Table

The below SQL query is one of the important one to get output from DB Statistics report. However, from what we can see, we are not sure why the 2nd join with WORKFLOW_CONTEXT (WC2) is needed (see the yellow-highlight in the attached screenshot). I...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Passwords in csr create and csr update needs possibility to be encrypted

Below is a sample of the properties that need to be in the csr.properties file when using the GenCSR script in Sterling B2B Integrator provider=IBMJCE keystoretype=SCIKS certificate.request.Name=TestSystemCert11 algorithm=RSA signature.algorithm=s...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Enhance handling of OutOfMemory exceptions for custom designed BPs

Hi, We faced outofmemory exception & UI unresponsiveness due to large resultset returned from database. We would appreciate if SI/SFG could have controls inside it to handle such errors.
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Cooperative Listener directory permissions

When Launcher starts in cooperative listener mode on RHEL servers a hidden directory is created under each watch point. That dir is named .WTX_<pid>_<hostname>. Each coop listener will have its own one of these hidden dirs. The dirs ar...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Submitted

Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted