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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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Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP)

Request for Enhancement (RFE): Alternative User Exit Options in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This document proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for alternative user exit options beyond th...
10 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

ITX offers DATETIME format conversion. Request a Function/Keyword to convert datetime from one time zone to specified time zone.

Am looking for a new function in ITX to convert datetime from one time zone to another time say. Say if the input is in format(with zone) 2024-07-26T:21:12:00 NZST, and requirement is to convert to CST. TODATETIMEZONE(datetimefield,fromzone,tozone...
10 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 2 Functionality already exists

Support OIDC/Oauth 2.0 in SSP

Modern authentication requirements need support for OIDC/Oauth 2.0 alongside the existing SAML 2.0 support. Please extend SSP to provide this flavor of access as well.
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Enable Deeplink into Order Hub

Similar to IBM legacy call center we would like to have the capabilities to deeplink into Orer hub pages.
about 1 month ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available

Avoid creating 0 byte file at destination when mail box document is not present in SFG while reference in database is available Case # TS017160795
2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Be able to control GS Control number format for ANSI X12 data

The WebMethods cloud product formats the GS level control number to be padded with leading 0s. This field is a variable length field and by the standard, should be sent without the leading 0s. As of today, we have to manually add a step in the flo...
11 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
11 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Submitted

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 1 Under review

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration