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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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The default Admin ID to be remove from a future release of software.

During the Control Center installation, admin accounts get created in Control Center, and as per the AXIS security team, there should not be any generic accounts like admin, administrator, etc As per IBM OEM the feasibility of removing the 'adm...

Security Vulnerability Password in Plain text

We have identified a security vulnerability regarding passwords being stored in plain text in the application.Despite the solution provided by IBM not being accepted by the application support team, they have recommended raising an RFE case. ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG

Add the ability to declare a global file size upload limit in SFG. The limit is a property. The limit applies to a single file transmission. The limit is available to all protocols (SSHFTP, Myfilegateway, Connect Direct, FTP, HTTP, AS2, Swift, etc...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Addition of columns in modern Inflight to reflect EDIFACT UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID

Hanon Systems is one of the most crucial customers on-boarded on SCBN with high volumes. Its extremely difficault for Hanon to check each and every EIDFACT message as they have dependency on UNG SenderID and UNG ReceiverID to reconcile the message...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Future consideration

Needed feature to disable User Account and corresponding RestAPI

Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator Product, user account can be either edited or deleted, there is not option to "disable" it. There are business scenarios where business need to disable user account for certain period of time (days or months) a...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 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...
11 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 2 Planned for future release

Support for Active Directory pooling or putting Domain Controller behind a VIP

We would benefit using a VIP to hit Domain Controllers in one or multiple data centers or using pooling of Domain Controllers

Revive Health Check Utility for Sterling Integrator

We had been widely using the Health Check Utility to examine the health and performance of the application on a weekly basis. After the utility was removed from recent versions, we are having difficulty validating the application on a routine basi...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Check box to enable or disable rules by selecting multiple rules at a time

Implementer needs to go to each and every rule to either enable or disable them during testing or production move, by adding this new feature in BPN tool, we can select the similar kind of rules (by rule set, rule names,....) which allows us to se...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Not under consideration

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for getCanonicalHostName() method in Java

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for some Windows enviroments.Installer calls getCanonicalHostName() method in Java ,and receive IP address instead of the server hostname for some security or settings.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Not under consideration