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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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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...
about 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 1 Future consideration

Monitoring, Alerting and Reporting capabilities not available

Monitoring: The only way to investigate the status/traffic of a specific connection is accessing the Event and Audit log files located in the SSP server. This has a deep impact on the usability of the product making the operation activities of Sup...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

SSH host Key only allowing dsa and rsa

One of our 3rd parties mentioned that they were planning on doing a change to Host Key Algorithms to allow rsa-sha2-512 rsa-sha2-256 As more clients are moving to secure host keys we would prefer to have this option
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Add support for PUT messages to AWS SQS and AWS SNS

Today B2B has only support for GET messages from AWS SQS, we also needs support to PUT messages do AWS SQS. In additional will be nice if we have support for PUT messages to AWS SNS, because we use AWS SNS do automate notifications to many AWS SQS.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step - PEPPOL Flow

Hi Team, This idea is to enable SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step for outbound PEPPOL messages. As per the PEPPOL guidelines, We have enabled PEPPOL validation step for all the PEPPOL outbound messages for the SCBN clien...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Future consideration

Bulk export maps from ConfigHub/ConfigCenter

Currently we dont have any option to export all maps (.mxl) from ConfigHub or Config Center. It is a TDS task to support and implementations teams to download all the maps one by one. By implementation this we can save a lot of time. Now a days cu...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Future consideration

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume

Need to accomodate larger volume for OMS table YFS_SHIPMENT column Total_Volume Field to be defined something like TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal (16,4) ... and not TOTAL_VOLUME Decimal(14,4) At the moment the TOTAL_VOLUME(14,4) does not accomodate over siz...
almost 5 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Italian E-invoicing: Time reporting between Inflight submitted date and reached SDI date

By law in Italy all EDI invoices need to be supplied to SDI within 12 calendar days. In order to find out if this is the case it is required to have data from Inflight to query. Currently the Event data when it is requesting SDI to approve or deny...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Future consideration