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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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All ideas

    Alternative way to create/change user password

    Once a user is created, one way to change/create the password is using the link received by an email sent by ICC. Other way is using LDAP/SSO. As the customer doesn't have the SMTP and the LDAP working for now and needs to create users and it's pa...
    about 12 hours ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Ability to disable alerts during pre-defined windows

    Our servers/agents are turned off during specific times of the day / weekday. We need an ability to monitor queue messages being processed, but the alerts should be disabled during the specific time that the agent is turned off, as queue messages ...
    1 day ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

    Request for official support for Oracle Database 26ai with IBM webMethods B2B 12.1

    We would like to request official support and certification for Oracle Database 26ai with IBM webMethods B2B 12.1. The customer intends to use Oracle Database 26ai and contacted IBM Support to confirm whether it is supported. We were informed...
    14 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 3 Submitted

    When applying an ifix the Connect:Direct File Agent Service Account should not be reset to "Local System'

    Case number TS023025891 Connect:Direct for Windows v.6.3 on Win2025 server.The Connect:Direct File Agent Windows Service is configured to run under a custom domain account.When applying the 6.3.0.6 ifix_081 the Connect:Direct File Agent Service Ac...
    about 3 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

    KRaft vs ZooKeeper in Global Mailbox

    Using KRaft and avoiding ZooKeeper, Kafka brokers themselves will manage this metadata using a quorum-based approach, eliminating the need for an external dependency. ZK creates operational bottlenecks, security issues, and increased resource cons...
    2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

    Native mTLS across Sterling File Gateway components and interfaces

    We require IBM Sterling File Gateway to provide native mutual TLS (mTLS) support across Sterling components, interfaces, and external machine-to-machine connections. The capability should provide mutual authentication of both endpoints using enter...
    4 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Submitted

    Enhance REST API Client Adapter to write response payload to Primary Document

    In the current design of the REST API Client Adapter, whenever an HTTP GET request is performed, the server's response payload (typically application/json) is automatically dumped to the local or shared file system. As a result, developers are for...
    13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

    InFlight 2.0 "Is Empty" search filter option

    InFlight 2.0 filters would be better if for some fields we could use not only the options currently available (Precise match or “contains” and their negative form) but also the “Is Empty” option
    21 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight (beta) 0 Submitted

    Restrict User Access To SNODEID usage

    Why is it useful?  SNODEID=YES or NO in the Security Exit is very broad and does not have any specific options to allow some users and not all.   Who Could Benefit from it? Security Administrators.  How Should It Work? Connect Direc...
    4 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 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 (...
    3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

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