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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...

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ITXA - Excel Adapter is failing, in SI-ITXA-ITX Integration Environment

During Integration with B2Bi, ITXA makes references to B2Bi jvm classpath, whereas ITXA needs to be more fully defined in the class required and not rely on SI. ITXA class loader adjustments are required. We need a way to see what classes are bein...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Planned for future release

Sterling B2B Integrator Container version ability to map to window servers

We are in the middle of a project to move from B2B/SFG on a Windows VM to a container environment using Red Hat OpenShift. The hold up for this project is our ability to map to windows servers. We have over 700 shares/directories to map. It is cri...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Planned for future release

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 1 year ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

comprehensive search facility in PR

We need a comprehensive search facility in PR compared to what is there now. There are many to search in the PEM DB via PR. We probably can use a series of API calls but that is cumbersome to use. So having more advanced search options in PR will ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 1 Planned for future release

Add a comments field in customization UI

There must be a comments field in customization UI while adding entries to customer_overrides.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

Allow email address to use as user ID

We have requirement to use email address as the user ID in sterling integrator.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Planned for future release

For IBM SFG to be able to leverage on Azure Managed SQL service

It would be super if SFG setup in Azure (IAAS) could leverage on Azure Managed SQL service (PAAS) instead of the need to setup MS SQL Server separately as an IAAS instance. The purpose of moving to cloud is to benefit from the need to administer s...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Simple silent upgrade for Connect Direct Web Services

According to IBM Support, for Connect Direct Web Services software, SILENT UPGRADE option requires to provide few additional parameters to silentInstall.properties file (e.g. SSL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PORT, POSTGRESQL_PASSWORD) in comparison to INTERAC...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

Perform checkouts before actual upgrade

Please consider to move or duplicate some of the checks before actual upgrade action. For example - cfgcheck can be initiated before upgrade action, this will eliminate situation where e.g. error in netmap.cfg/userfile.cfg causes rollback action a...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Planned for future release

Failure Handling

It would be better if we can -> had a failure handling option in PEM (like on fault in SI) -> call another activity from one activity Let us know, for more details
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Workflows 0 Planned for future release