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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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Automated Reports for Success and Failure Stats from IBM Sterling

Currently, we have to manually generate the reports by extracting the data from Sterling Inflight as per steps below.We access https://na.inflight.b2b.ibmcloud.com/ to get both reports. Business view preference is set to be Whirlpool XMLAccount -&...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Planned for future release

Code lists that can be conditional.

It would be good if you could have code lists that are conditional so that these can be updated easily without being a full-blown configuration change. We have different plants that use specific MRP Types and Lot Sizing Procedures. The list of val...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

USER Management API

Development of an API that can create and update user account, roles, and set permissions. An API of this nature would allow IT Management programs such as Saviynt to dynamically control user access within the application based on client's own Ide...
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 0 Future consideration

Configure Adapter to blacklist user-ids

Hi Team, IBM Sterling Secure Proxy Configuration Manager must have an option at adapter-level to blacklist user-ids. Expectation: By default the incoming traffic [Protocol: SFTP] does prompt for a password. Business Security admins are increasingl...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Sterling Connect:Direct Windows supporting S3 file transfer

Currently, Sterling CD Unix supports file transfers to S3 bucket and however, Sterling CD Windows does not support file transfers to S3 bucket. As CDW doesn't support S3 bucket file transfers, this is causing the teams to proceed with alternative ...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

DEVOPS deployment to LINUX servers

Devops has been around for a while, with automated testing and deployment. WTX should provide tool to auto deploy (similar to map build). This would take the PC tested map and allow it to be deployed to a server for further testing in a LINUX envi...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Functionality already exists

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.

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

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