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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 back ability to configure custom SSL settings per netmap remote node

It appears version 6.2 removes the ability to custom configure SSL settings per each remote node in the netmap and forces you to select a pre-configured SSL profile. We would like to have the option to custom configure SSL settings per each remote...
8 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true needs to be added into the security.properties.in file

per IBM - There is a technote that indicates security.OverrideAsnCompliancePolicy=true be added to the customer_overrides specifically to ignore OID errors caused by certificates with attributes not supported by the Certicom jar files which SI use...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Provide tooltip messages for disabled toolbar action buttons in the "Order Summary - Orderlines" tab to improve clarity on their disabled state.

This feature would be highly beneficial for customer service teams, educators, and users who interact with the system. It will provide immediate context on why a button is disabled, improving communication and reducing confusion. Tooltips should b...
8 months ago in Call Center 0 Future consideration

Show source IP and user in log for ALL attempts

It is useful to scan logs with security tools to look for patterns in brute force access to the B2B Integrator instance. None of the logs today contain the real source IP of connection attempts. Only certain logs show the perimeter server IP the r...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Allow configuration of SMTP alert parameters for Event Framework

Currently alert emails sent via Event Framework are send with fixed SMTP port 25. Since more and more companies have special requirements for SMTP mail traffic it would be great if the SMTP parameters like port, authentication etc. could be config...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

CDWS - certificate-based authentication - CLIENT certificate differentiation

We use standard connection path for certificate-based authentication: CLIENT (for example curl command) -> CDWS (CD Web Services) -> CD (Connect Direct) Let's assume that: CLIENT uses client certificate with CNAME=cert1 CDWS server uses cert...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Control Center Director -- Additional Node Upgrade Selection Options

Looking for additional/more robust functionality for additional scoping options when performing CDW and CDU upgrades through CCD. Something like the import a server list .csv , or to be able to create/populate a dynamic large group or list. Select...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Future consideration

Audit record/log for the SQL statement executed via db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh scripts

Hi Team, Currently in Sterling B2B Integrator there is no audit records/logs for the SQL statements executed via scripts db_exec.sh and db_execFile.sh. We have verified the logs and ADMIN_AUDIT table and could not find any audit trial for the SQL ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

E-Invoice: Storing Failed Delivery documents when Archiving the invoice in Inflight

There is a legal requirement to also keep failed delivery documents from failed invoices in Italy. Right now when a failed invoice reaches 30 days old then it gets archived. When archived all events + attachments in the events get removed so there...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

Improve the Secure + Key Certificates Report and Trusted Certificates Report

Please add the validity dates (start and expiration) to the Secure + Key Certificates Report and the Trusted Certificates Report. This is useful information that is often needed and would assist in the management of key and trusted certificates.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 5 Planned for future release