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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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Maximum Logins per user sessions settings configuration in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Adaptor level

Currently in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy configuration manager at adapter level there is configuration for Maximum Sessions. We are looking for configuration for Maximum Logins" per user.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Protect usage of the 'decrypt_string.sh|cmd' command

The database password stored in sandbox.cfg can be encrypted, but the facility to decrypt it is readily available within the installation (i.e. "decrypt_string.cmd|sh"). A user with access to the SFG installation directory would therefore not have...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Submitted

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Add Solace to list of supported integration adapters in SDF

We are using Solace PubSub+ platform and is hoping to have OOB product support from OMS for integration with Solace. It is a popular growing platform that has been adopted by many customers across the globe and industry
20 days ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 3 Planned for future release

Enable the ability to copy text from the UI output.

Currently the only option for UI output is copying it as a picture, which has obvious drawbacks when copying and sharing information with business users. We are reduced to sending screenshots. It would be far better to be able to copy and share UI...
22 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Submitted