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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...

Sterling B2B Integrator

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Support for Linux 5.x kernels

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) >= 1.18.0 provisions the worker nodes with a Ubuntu running 5.x kernels (e.g. 5.4.0-1034-azure) and the deployment of sfg:6.1.0.0 and sfg:6.1.0.1 containers fail because Linux 5.* is not included in *.Linux.VERSIO...

Know Host Key Puller REST API

We're trying to streamline the builds of SFTP profiles in B2B Intergrator using a REST API. I submitted a ticket to research if this capability was available and the tech indicated that there is no API for this. This would help streamline our proc...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installi...

PGP Partner Manager and PGP Sponsor Manager APIS

When automating the PGP workflow through PEM, I need to be able to create a PGP Partner. I also need to be able to access the current PGP Partners and Sponsors, as well as check for duplicates.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

Password Security Controls

Password security controls for Sterling File Gateway/B2B administrator interfaces using local authentication are not sufficient: Passwords expiration can’t be enforced. Password complexity settings are minimal and don’t comply with our securi...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Delivered

Create RCT API

Would like to be able to create a routing channel template from PEM.
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Delivered

AS2 Support for AES256 Message Encryption Algorithm

Sterling B2B Integrator AS2 currently supports only Triple DES Our partners are requesting to support AES encryption algorithm. One of the key partners is going to decommission support for triple DES by September 2018. This support for AES is very...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Delivered

Enable TLS support for JDBC database connection

Cannot find any reference in Sterling B2B Advanced Communications documentation that TLS is supported for connections to the database. Requesting to add support for this feature.
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Add support for Encrypt-to-Self option

It is to allow remote partner (the file owner) and the recipient can decrypt the file too. In GPG, it will scan KeyID and if any keyID is found in the keyring, it will use the corresponding private key to decrypt the file. Some trading partners en...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 2 Delivered

SFG does not always handle signed encrypted messages correctly

Associated PMR: TS010987658 Partner P is associated with a community C. The community is associated with a PGP key PK. Now if partner encrypts the message with public key associated with PK and signs with his private key then SFG can decrypt and p...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Delivered