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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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Support Load balancing for IBM DB2 service.

We are having b2bi(Sterling Integrator) installed in VM and Database we have for B2Bi is IBM DB2 and there are 3 IPs assigned to the DB and being load balanced with Round robin. This scenario seems not supported. Having support for this feature wi...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

Option to Disable Exporting Private keys from SSPCM

Currently we can export Private keys for SSL certificates and private SSH keys using export API in SSPCM which is a security concern. Having an option to disable exporting private keys will strengthen the application and comply with Banking securi...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 1 Planned for future release

Linux systemd script implementation for Sterling Connect:Express

to Develop and test example IBM Sterling Connect:Express linux autoboot systemd control script since systemd is replacing init.d for RHEL 7 and other linux distributions.
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Usability 2 Future consideration

Enhancing monitoring rules

Order monitoring rules should be based on the combination of count of orders in a particular status for a period of time. This will help to monitor the orders when an agent is not working fine or a technical glitch in the system and can react and ...
over 5 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Planned for future release

Include validation for NBOR SaFIR messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

With ISO20022 requirements that need to be adopted in the upcoming year, banks need to validate NBOR SaFIR messages as well. The current ITX FinPay PLUS package doesn't include the related xsd's. Can the next FinPay PLUS package include the necess...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Planned for future release

Restrict creation of folders within IBM hosted SFTP server

When partners are allowed connection to IBM SFTP server, there are two directories created, one for inbound and one for outbound. In some cases trading partner creates more folders under /root. The users should be restricted from creating new fold...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM External Authentication Server in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM SEAS helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to...

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM SSP in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Secure Proxy helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra annotations we need to make chan...
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Planned for future release

PEPPOL Invoice/Application Response generated via XML validation report using Generic Status option

For PEPPOL Implementation, the Invoice/Application response are generated based on the outcome of the validation service report. The error message from the report is used to put in the Response message back to partner. In current flow, we cannot u...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Control of Sessions between the client and partners to avoid Wait Sessions

If the client has in netmap configuration session limit defined and the partner has in their netmap configuration session limit different from the client, it will leave the process in wait and sometimes depending on the volume, Connect:Direct will...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 2 Not under consideration