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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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Refresh all configurations of managed servers on Control Center

Currently, you can have Control Center check for configuration changes daily at a specific time. However, if an authorized user is making multiple configuration changes to multiple servers, they may want to be able to refresh all of the configurat...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

IBM B2B Integrator product needs an ability to capture the SFTP public key of a Client attempting to connect to File Gateway's mailbox.

When a client first attempts to connect to the server their public key should be captured and put in an holding tank. We find that many of our customers are unable to successfully capture and share their public key with out the format of the trans...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Usability 0 Future consideration

getOrderList API should provide one unioned, sorted result set across active and history records

Today's implementation of getOrderList API makes two calls under the hood - one to archive tables and one to active tables (assuming archive switch was invoked in the call.) Almost *no* consumer of order history wants two separate lists, each sort...
about 3 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for Control Center

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSP, and Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

BKFS - Centralized administrator User Provisioning for SSP

User accounts created in LDAP must also be created in the following GUIs: SFG, SSP, and Control Center. Ability to centralize/ "one time" provisioning for all Sterling software would simplify the system administration.
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

myfilegateway download tab

When a producer uploads a file to a mailbox that has an associated routing channel, once the routing is complete the file shows up in the file listing in the producers download tab in myfilegateway. This has caused some concern for some of my prod...
over 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Future consideration

BKFS - SSP GUI Visibility

No GUI visibility for account locks over SFTP at proxy level
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Support Store engagement on airwatch browser

With enterprise mobile applications, most enterprises are using sophisticated EMM tools to manage device's security policy. VMware airwatch is one such EMM tool. To control the security policy, EMM tools provide their own browser e.g. Airwatch bro...
over 6 years ago in Store Engagement 1 Future consideration

Supply Client Certificate Details to BP launched by HTTP Server Adapter

Details as to the CommonName of the Client Certificate and its Signing Authority would be useful in BP ProcessData to validate that the Client Certificate belongs to the source system that used it, and that it is signed by the correct CA (when mul...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Workflow not Halting for Unmanaged Exceptions

Documentation states: " When no code attribute exists and no match to a defined attribute exists for an onFault element at a level, Sterling B2B Integrator moves to a general onFault (no code attribute) element. If Sterling B2B Integrator does not...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration