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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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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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    Prevent Plaintext Passwords from Being Written to Upgrade and Installation Logs During Re-Encryption

    During in-place upgrades of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (for example, upgrading from 6.0.3 or 6.1.1 to 6.2.2), the upgrade process decrypts legacy credentials and re-encrypts them using newer encryption algorithms. As part of this process, the ins...
    3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

    Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Sterling Secure Proxy

    Quantum computing presents a significant long-term risk to several widely deployed cryptographic algorithms currently used to protect data in transit, including RSA, ECDHE, and DHE, which form the foundation of modern TLS implementations. The imme...
    6 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

    IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Services 6.4 Suport for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.x

    Customer is creating a new environment and it's intent is to have the latest version of CDWS and OS. Customer is using RHEL 10.2 but the documentatio (below) states that the version supported is up do 9.x. Customer needs that CDWS supports at leas...
    24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2

    To import all SST events into Google Calendar

    For Google account We request IBM to import all SST events to the Google Calender.
    4 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

    DB Password to be fetched from Password Safe like HarshiCorp

    Sterling Integrator should retrieve the database password dynamically from a credential vault solution such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk. Password rotation performed in the vault should be transparent to the application, without requiring servic...
    27 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Submitted

    External Key Vault configuration

    Background & Customer Context: Enterprise clients running or planning to run containerized IBM Sterling workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift (such as Bradesco) can be required by corporate governance to centralize credentials in external vaults (...
    about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

    Support TAF/TAC for Oracle RAC

    Oracle RAC and ExaCC provide resilience through multiple nodes, and the primary database can fail over between these nodes. Historically, Sterling Integrator has experienced database connection pool exhaustion issues where the Oracle database has ...
    18 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Submitted

    Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Sterling B2B Integrator

    Quantum computing presents a significant long-term risk to several widely deployed cryptographic algorithms currently used to protect data in transit, including RSA, ECDHE, and DHE, which form the foundation of modern TLS implementations. The imme...
    11 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

    Enable CSPA600W certificate-expiry alerting to evaluate the certificate actively in use from the Secure Plus in-storage cache, not only the ACF2/RACF key ring.

    Today, Connect:Direct Secure Plus certificate-expiry alerting (CSPA600W) evaluates the certificate installed in the RACF key ring. However, Connect:Direct runs off the certificate held in its in-storage Secure Plus cache until a Secure Plus Refres...
    14 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

    Control Center does not reapply updated secrets/configuration values after deployment update without forcing reconfiguration or removing persisted state

    The customer has identified an issue with IBM Connect:Direct Control Center running on Kubernetes/EKS. During the initial deployment, configuration values such as database credentials, administrator passwords and other secrets are provided through...
    2 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

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