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Ability to Block Concurrent Sessions of All Users

Due to security reasons, it is necessary to have the option to block concurrent sessions of all users. Right now, it can be only be achieved via Bandwidth Limiting Policy however since that option affects only the selected users, newly created use...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Specify our desired default settings for Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC Algorithm

When creating a new SSH Remote Profile, the Preferred Cipher and Preferred MAC fields are defaulting to values that are deprecated (blowfish-cbc and hmac-sha1). I was told that those deprecated settings are hardcoded in the B2Bi application. We wi...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 4 Functionality already exists

Enhancing the Password Policy

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Request for improvement of the CONNECT DIRECT manual contents so that incompatibility information items are clearly indicated

Our client plans to upgrade Connect:Direcr for z/OS from V6.1 to V6.4 in 2025 and we need to provide them with information about incompatibilities from V6.4 to V6.1. We checked the manual of IBM Connect:Direct for z/OS 6.4 Documentaion, but there ...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists

Have the ability to import a public and secret key ring into native PGP for B2Bi.

I believe that this functionality would be useful for the user community to be able to import an entire key ring (both public and secret) instead of having to import the keys individually.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Generate longfile name for Connect:Direct transfers in log

We want to utilize transfer logs generated in syslog/task log to do some automation reporting and alerting. However NDM longfile name which reported in SMF type FI isn't written to syslog so we can't get full pictures for file transfers between un...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add Ability to Lockout Accounts, System Wide, When Using SFTP Server Adapter

When an SFTP Lockout Policy is configured, we can specify the number of passwords an account can try before being locked out. This works great with a single SFTP Adapter. However, if multiple adapters are configured with a load balancer in from of...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Functionality already exists

Only specific user should have access to specific BP Primary document and Instance Data

We have a business scenario, where for security reasons we want only allowed user(s) to have access to a specific BP flow execution. All users / superusers , who are not allowed to view this data, should not be able to view the Primary Document / ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 7 Functionality already exists

Export of Supply Audit Table

Is there an approach that would allow a user to get an audit history for all Items for a specific Tenant/Enterprise and receive the data in a format that can be converted to a CSV file. The intent is to have a business user be able to evaluate all...
almost 2 years ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists