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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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Extend Advanced Permission Management feature to SFG

Similar to the article below, however extend this feature for SFG. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/tanvi-kakodkar1/2020/01/20/advanced-permission-management
over 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

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...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Needs more information

Limit User permissions in MyFiles UI

Would like to enhance myFilesUI to restrict user functionality. For example restricting their ability to delete files from the Mailbox.
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Functionality already exists

Report on the Ciphers and MAC algorithms and TLS versions in use for all trading partner connections

In order to be able to remove deprecated ciphers and algorithms, it is handy to know if any existing trading partners are utilising these to (a) determine impact of removal, and (b) identify and provide correspondence to affected partners when we ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

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

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

Validation Service Report should be sent as ERN to Customer

Similar to ERN report we have today in SCBN, the new validation services used for PEPPOL flow do generate error report on failure after running via open library/Schematron. But, these error reports are not sent as ERN. We don't have option to sele...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Alerting/Notifications 0 Planned for future release

Handling new zipcodes in OMS

Handling new zipcodes in OMS. Currently OMS does not have any logic to allocate/identify orders from a Zipcode which is not available on the DB. Copuntries update the list of postal codes every year and more zip codes will be added year on year. C...
9 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

WEBHOOK IMPLEMENTATION

RS Components/Electro Components trading partner PostNord (SenderID 0000550273) have informed us of a change they are making to the way they provide parcel tracking data. They have provided the note below, as well as the attached documentation. In...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Not under consideration

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