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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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MSQL JDBC drivers 10.2.0 and higher support for Sterling B2B Integrator.

Need IBM Sterling B2B Integrator support for MSQL JDBC drivers 10.2.0 and higher. The driver have an additional pair of parameters that designate the retry connection between in the event the database connection is broken or failover. https://lear...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Planned for future release

REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

CLA2Server publicCertAlias

Now publicCertAlias value of the Command line adapter2 server (CLA2Server) only support the leaf certificate instead of root/intermediate certificate for client authentication with CLA2Client. So it means that all CLA2Client adapter must be use th...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 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...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Reverse Partial Consumed Paypal Auth at the time of expiry

For PayPal orders during Re auth on expiration for partially shipped orders results in PayPal settlement failures where huge no. of orders are getting impacted.In Production, we have a setup of expiring the authorization of orders in 10 days. When...
about 2 years ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Future consideration

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Allow for Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive

For Windows servers we need the Connect Direct service account to be non-interactive (Per Windows functionality, the service account needs to perform a logging event to retrieve the properties (access/grants/rights) that the user has. For financia...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Need SSL/TLS support for Global Mailbox to post its events to Control Center

Most other connections are firmly secured in B2Bi/SFG/GM, with one significant exception; the ability to post events and heartbeats from Global Mailbox to Control Center (ICC or CCM). By default, CCM 6.2 disables its non-secure web port, 58082. Si...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Sharepoint Integration

We are getting a lot of requests to transfer files directly to a sharepoint site using connect direct
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Functionality already exists

WTX/ITX Oracle adapter - automatic failover implementation

We are using the WTX/ITX Oracle adapter for our connection with an Oracle Exadata database. In case of database failure, Exadate switch automaticly to the second cluster node. >> Problem : At the switch time, all running maps faile w...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration