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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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Transformations/Envelopes Please Remove Production facing Envelopes from view in CTE Next Envelope choice list.

It is confusing and might lead to issues, if permitted to select a Next Envelope on a CTE envelope that does not actually exist in CTE. For example, in the screenshots attached, when searching for a next envelope, the list provides 4 GS envelopes,...
10 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

Allow all decryption ciphers for OFTP according to the official Odette specifications

We were told that the SI software is coded based upon https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5024#section-10.2 which only includes 2 ciphers for decryption and these are outdated. Companies are switching to a more secure cipher which prevents us...

Support ICAP on SSP FTPS adapters

SSP's ICAP capability currently only supports Connect:Direct, SFTP, and https (myfg2.0 specifically when exposing myfilegateway). Customers require support for FTPS since many partners globally still use FTPS and will continue to do so.SSP custome...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Under review

Allow SSP CM user role to be determined by an attribute returned by LDAP

This will allow privileges to be dynamic based on temporary elevation determined by group. Users do not need persistent Admin authority and SEAS could determine whether or not user should be admin or operator based on LDAP attribute
11 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Single Version for ITX installation

With relation to : ITX-I-396 , to get the version of ITX , we use dtxver command. This command doesn't provide a version of the installation. It provides a version of each file in the directory it's run from. This is again a massive SDLC, complian...
22 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

Urgent Fixes Delivery

Currently , in case of a critical security vulnerability and when we request a fix from IBM, we're given a list of files to replace in the product. This breaks almost every pillar of SDLC discipline. Traceability gaps, audit failures , operational...
22 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

File Encoding Not Properly Reflected in InFlight UI

The "Encoding" option in the InFlight UI currently displays "default," which does not provide meaningful information to the user. As a result, users must download the file, open it in a text editor such as Notepad++, and manually check the actual ...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 3 Under review

Enhance the EBMS:0006 Polling Response Detail

Currently the B2BAC platform returns the generic EMBS:0006 error response to a polling request with the generic description "There is no message available for pulling from this MPC at this moment' This generic response is returned in three distinc...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Planned for future release

The backend service which connects CDSA adapters from SSP to B2bi does not load balance

The backend service which connects CDSA adapters from SSP to B2bi does not load balance. Looks like the backend service is tied to only 1 particular sfg-asi node at a time and when the adapter goes down on that B2bi node, inbound connectivity from...