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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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certificate-based authentication support for CDAIJ and CDW

Many customers from banks need to change their OS users' password every 1 or 3 months for all OS according to their security regulation which means all applications or middleware using the old password must change at the same time. For customers, ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Trace File on failure

ITX being a robust product , there a strong feeling that when we look in to the trace on failure of a file its being bewildered or unclear at which point of input data error has occurred. New option can be introduced showing only the failing value...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 1 Not under consideration

We need a Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions

Tool to Identify the Cause of HIPAA X12 Compliance Exceptions NASCO routinely receives very large HIPAA X12 transmissions from their business / trading partners. (Very large meaning millions of segments and tens of thousands of transactions.) Only...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Managed AS2

Trying to make a new connection with Tracelink in order to transfer serial# information for drug products to comply with Pharmaceutical Industry Serialization requirements.
about 6 years ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

AzureClientForB2Bi adapter documentation

We are trying to connect to Azure blob using Adapter - AzureClientForB2Bi but we could not find any detail documentation about various file processing we need to do by connecting to Blob. Please help with documentation.
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Documentation 0 Not under consideration

BPN Rules levels with "Default with condition / Last preference with condition" option

We know the Default option in the BPN ST rules has the last preference when conditions are not matched. If we can have an extra option "Default with the condition" which works similarly to the "Default" option but it checks the condition. If still...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Implement Password rules for FTP(s) and SFTP Server Adapter External Authentication

Our platform is using IBM Sterling Integrator 6.1.1 Not using Sterling Secure Proxy All the accounts are created using local LDAP on the app servers. These accounts do not use IBM Sterling Authentication. FTP(s) or SFTP Following are the requireme...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Not under consideration

Update Installation Manager to use installed version of java

SBI currently requires IIM to install. IIM comes packaged with its own version of Java, which is typically out of date and (as instructed in a PMR) cannot be updated independently to bring into compliance. If IIM could be configured to use an inst...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Not under consideration

Tracking variables [PF1, Pf2 etc] in Inflight Event Details

The variables [like ProcessingFlag1/Flag2/Flag3 etc] for each transaction are being set either at the BPN ST rule level or Map or both. At present, the Event details for the Sucess/Error messages don't have these values tracked in Inflight. Is t...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Segregate PR and PP JMS properties instead of overloading them into one and forcing 2 copies of MountFiles

If embedded JMS is used, the Partner Repository and Partner Provisioner use different values in the same property "enable_jms_features" in Setup.cfg file. This makes it imperative to create two distinct copies of the entire MountFiles directory to...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 Not under consideration