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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 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...
14 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

Automatic recovery for critical failures such as database failures

We have an SFG/B2B environment installed on Linux/AIX machines and in tests simulating the loss of the database we noticed that after the database becomes operational, SFG/B2B does not recover, making it necessary to perform a STOP/START of the pr...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Submitted

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling B2B Integrator with the new standards. This request has the g...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

Support NetApp StorageGRID S3 Implementation

Many IBM customers have NetApp storage as part of their infrastructure. NetApp's StorageGRID offering (https://www.netapp.com/data-storage/storagegrid/) provides native support for S3 APIs. Adding support for this implementation of those APIs will...

Extend the length of the work code field in MROIO

We require a 2 character extension on the Work Code field from 2 digits to a 4 digit field. This would allow us more characters to add a two digit year designation for material that we track under the Nonbooked inventory returned work code. This i...
15 days ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Log Standards

Some customers has the need to read the logs using some realtime observability tools, such as Prometheus, Splunk. There is some difficulties on integrating those actual logs of Sterling Control Center with the new standards. This request has the g...
8 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
16 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

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) ...
16 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Submitted

10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration