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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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Ability to view deployment history till last 1 year in Self Service Tool.

Need to have deployment history reflected for the last 1 year in Self Service tool.
5 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Future consideration

Add the setting in SSP or PS can redirect incoming traffic to a different adapter after the adapter reaches its maximum session limit

For sftp clients from our external clients, their TCP sessions remain ESTABLISHED even though after users logoff. As a result, the Maximum Session limit of the SFTP adapter will be reached frequently. However, even though the session limit is reac...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Planned for future release

Show source IP and user in log for ALL attempts

It is useful to scan logs with security tools to look for patterns in brute force access to the B2B Integrator instance. None of the logs today contain the real source IP of connection attempts. Only certain logs show the perimeter server IP the r...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

B2Bi Sterling Integrator generating invalid delivery status in the application UI following deadlock

In April 2024 an external client submitted a payment file into the B2Bi Sterling Integrator product within my production environment. The file routed and delivered successfully to the remote target system, and the payment file processed through th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Needs more information

Inflight API Response with all columns/fields which are visible under Inflight UI

Few Customers having the usecases like they need information from other columns for the Inflight API Response along with SenderID,ReceiverID,DocumentType and received time and sent time, because they need other info as well like Reference Number, ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Planned for future release

YFS_PAYMENT entity, TOTAL_CHARGED column data type is limited to Decimal(15,2). Please update to Decimal(15,3)

YFS_PAYMENT entity, TOTAL_CHARGED column data type is limited to Decimal(15,2). Processed amount value more than 3 digits is rounded to 2 which is causing finance discrepancies. For Kuwait and Bahrain markers 1= 1000 Phils which is causing loss of...
5 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Elliptic curves for SSL connection for Https/AS2 connectivity

Currently, there is no option to restrict or use only required Elliptic curves for the SSL connection for https/AS2 connectivity. For Example: Below are the Elliptic curves secp192r1 – {1.2.840.10045.3.1.1} secp224r1 – {1.3.132.0.33} secp256r1 – {...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Future consideration

Let keystore/truststore fields directly editable in the Admin Web Interfaca

In SEAS 6.0 GUI it was possible to specify keystore/truststore as local to the server in the GUI. In SEAS 6.1 the keystore/trust must be fetched from the users LAPTOP as the browse functionality is local to the browser and input fields are protected.

Sterling B2B Integrator Container version ability to map to window servers

We are in the middle of a project to move from B2B/SFG on a Windows VM to a container environment using Red Hat OpenShift. The hold up for this project is our ability to map to windows servers. We have over 700 shares/directories to map. It is cri...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

Extend REST API to return adapter status

In Secure Proxy GUI you can examine the status of the adapters by going to Monitoring-> Engine Status(ALL) -> Engine Name and see whether each adapter is running. This functionality is not present in the REST API. You can lookup the configur...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration