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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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Accessing Queue Watcher dashboard for each ASI Pod

Currently for Container based deployment of Sterling integrator we are not seeing any provision to access QueueWacther page for each individual ASI POD. If we have multiple ASI Pods and If we access queueWatcher page then it opens up from any of A...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Enable Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) via Active Directory Integration for Sterling B2Bi/SFG

Currently, Sterling B2Bi/SFG relies on local group configurations for role-based access control (RBAC), which creates operational overhead and limits centralized governance. We propose introducing native integration with Active Directory (AD) to m...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Parity of local and global mailboxes in the B2B REST API

We want to include Global Mailboxes, list, and content extract, just like Local Mailboxes, as part of the B2B REST API. The aim is to enable 1touch and IBM IGDC to integrate with the IBM Sterling solution while monitoring all data passing through ...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Needs more information

Include Item Custom Attributes in IV events

We are currently using IV events both Delta and Snapshot to publish inventory data across different systems. However, we need to include an identifier in these event outputs to prevent unwanted updates between systems. For example, SystemA should ...
2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 3 Planned for future release

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

GIODE Protocol Failures get tracked in doc tracker

VAN Clients uses GIODE for trading partner direct connections. When files gets failed while delivering to direct connection partners, visibility is missing in doc tracker application.
18 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 1 Needs more information

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) roles for integration between S3 adapter and S3 buckets.

Today, SBI only supports access to AWS S3 buckets via secret and access keys. While keys can be configured, the preference from our security and cloud team is to have ARN roles supported as key management becomes difficult with rotating keys every...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy to sign Login SAML request

Presently IBM Sterling Secure proxy sends a SAML request to external Idp using SSO Configuration in SSP. The Login SAML request is not adding the signature but the logout request is adding the signature in SAML request from SSP. From our security ...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Payment Collection Agent is authorizing more than the Order Total

In cases where Order is completely cancelled (such that the Order Total is 0) or Order is partially cancelled and there is only a particular amount for which reversal and thus reauth is due, it is observed that Payment collection agent is trying t...
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Under review