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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...
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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This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication.

Request for Enhancement (RFE): OpenID Connect (OIDC) Support in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) 1. Introduction This RFE proposes an enhancement to IBM Sterling Secure Proxy (SSP) to include support for OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication. OIDC i...
10 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Adding SSCTL commands for rolling restart and restarting all agent/integration servers

Currently we do not have any commands for Rolling Restart process and agent start/stop processes in SST CLI. Current SSCTL commands are available for Uploading, listing, deploying, upgrading, downloading customizations processes along with CDT rel...
about 2 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Submitted

Add ITX ACHIVE(ZIP) Adapter support on ITXA.

We are using ITXA for ITX map processing and there was an expectation that ITXA supports all ITX Adapters. However, that is not the case, as we recently discovered that ITXA does not support ZIP Adapter use in our ITX maps when run on ITXA. Althou...
5 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted
111 VOTE

Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Multi-Factor Authentication for Sterling Integrator 6.x

Requesting Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Sterling Integrator 6.x Dashboard console log in. Currently, the application allows to create account locally or integrated with AD. Requesting MFA to add another layer of security and authentication.
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Support storage of private ssh key in HSM

Mastercard's File Transfer System uses SSP, CM and SEAS for SFTP Server. The current configuration does not comply with our policy that requires SSH private key to be stored in a Hardware Security Module (HSM). These keys are configured in CM UI a...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 3 Future consideration

Sterling Filegateway - Global mailbox support for the MQ FTE protocol

We are looking for Global mailbox support for the MQ FTE protocol. This is primary protocol used on our side for Intranet transfers.
8 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Support ICAP Virus scan for Forward Proxy connections

Sterling customers that receive data from partners benefit from ICAP streaming virus scan. However, most customers support both file transfer motions where SFG/B2Bi reach out to partners to move files as well. This reach out (listening producer) s...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Future consideration

New DGADNTLD PARM=SYNTAX

Requesting DGADNTLD parameter called SYNTAX. This should be similar to the $$SYNTAX option for updating Netmaps. We would like to be able to syntax check our new netmap source code before actually trying to load it into the NETMAP VSAM file. This ...
27 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review