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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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Decompress and read .tar files

Currently BPN tool is able to unzip and extract only .zip files. We have customers and trading partner ( for Ex : Electrolux) sending us .tar files. Requirements are to unzip the .tar files and extract the files within. This is not possible using ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Allow Pass-Through User Mapping option for " Password Or Key " Authentication Method in SFTP policies

We want to be able to select on the secure proxy configuration manager on SFTP policies the User Mapping option " Pass-Through " when the required Authentication Method selected is " Password Or Key ". This option is available for " Password ", " ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Enhance CLI with Inbound/Outbound Access Expiry Management and More Specific Failure Return Codes

Add commands to the IBM Sterling CLI to manage inbound/outbound access expiration dates and generate new ones, and include more granular return codes for failures. Description:Currently, IBM Sterling CLI provides a basic return code of 0 for succe...
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Functionality already exists

GnuPG latest version (2.2.x) integration with B2Bi 6.x

After upgrade of B2Bi from 5.2.6.x to 6.1.1.0, we are no longer able to use GnuPG. 6.1.1.0 has supported OS for RHEL 7/8. Newer RHEL versions have latest GnuPG installed on it as base package configuration where we are getting (2.2.x) version. B2B...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Individual Status Messaging: On a batched IB EDI File with Deenveloping

Currently, the de-envelope service processes a single file containing multiple ISA/UNB/UNA interchanges by splitting and translating each interchange individually without any preprocess split. However, status messages configured at the de-envelope...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 1 Under review

Some important Transaction log sorting and searching functionality is missing

Functionality that was previously available on premise does not exist in the cloud.Examples:Advanced search (using AND/OR operator on different attributes)Sorting on other columns than DateChosen view (number of transactions, visible columns etc) ...
11 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 1 Under review

Hold based rescheduling to update ETD/ETS for scheduled order lines

There is a need for an automated rescheduling feature in OM. Especially on B2B, the requested ship date tends to be important and may often change for order line via integration. In these cases the order line should be rescheduled automatically. C...
over 2 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Add a utility page where telnet, ping and traceroute can be run

When trying to troubleshoot connectivity issues with API endpoints to backend applications from a PEM cloud instance, it would be very helpful if there was a way that a sponsor admin could run a telnet, ping or traceroute command. This cannot curr...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration

Enhance RESTAPIClient service to retrieve headers

The current RESTAPIClient service is missing functionality to retrieve header information when calling an API. For example. When you do a call to an API (GET) with a custom header element (<X-CSRF-TOKEN>fetch</X-CSRF-TOKEN>) to fetch a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release