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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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Include ECMS marketplace in FinPay PLUS package

To follow the adoption of the ISO20022 standard over all domestic markets, the FinPay PLUS package should include the ECMS maps.
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Support Microsoft Entra ID since we are replacing the use of LDAP

We are moving away as an organization from using LDAP and replacing it with Microsoft Entra ID. Please build in support for that as an additional method of user authentication outside of SFG and B2Bi
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Under review

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

OAGIS 10.0 is not available in map editor, only 9.0 is available

Customers with Oracle applications and other XML-based applications are using OAGIS 10.0 versions which are not available in Sterling standard/maps. We tried to load the OAGIS 10.0 schemas into the map editor and map editor crashed due to the size...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Under review

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
9 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Support to update trading partner (partner profile) data or ask to remove their data or configuration in SFG

Based a regulations like GDPR and LGPD customer needs do provide to their trading partners the option to update the trading partner profile thru myFG 2.0 or even an option to remove or download their data.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

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...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 2 Under review

Codesets caching in hipaa healthcare pack

We want some kind of caching mechanism in the hipaa healthcare pack, so instead of calling the database (for SNIP 5 rules) each time the map is called, it should cache the codeset values from DB.
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Under review

Read REST API Client for POST

In the documentation, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.0.2?topic=z-rest-api-client-service, the outputpath is specified for a GET but we are attempting to POST. While the BP uses the path I've specified to write a file, it's a 0 byte f...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

Windows authentication (instead of SQL authentication) for connection to the database

This is a security standard for the Windows platform. Similar to idea SFG-I-324, for Sterling File Gateway, clients are asking about the Windows authentication between CCM/D and the database. Not have this option might be a roadblock for some clie...
7 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review