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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 (...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

Control DB pool ephemeral ports from B2Bi

We should ideally be able to define port range to be used by DB pools. Currently it takes any random port available which is cumbersome and we have had times where we had run into issues due to this. [siadmin@ediapp01pakr logs]$ netstat -antp | gr...
38 minutes ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Submitted

Enhancement Request: Support for Configuring an Alternate OS User for the File System Adapter

Hi,In our environment, we have many transfers configured with the File System Adapter (FSA) to send files to remote NAS locations using the SMB protocol.In our Active Directory environment, the technical user used by IBM B2Bi is granted access to ...
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications Submitted

NCPDP version F6 repeating ECL values.

NCPDP publishes a periodic Telecommunication Standard Version F6© and above Editorial and Best Practices which provides guidance and additional implementation instructions. Version 03 was published in June 2026. In section 3.3 ECL Values there is ...
2 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance Submitted

Enable AS2 Duplicate Message ID Check at Partner/Customer Configuration Level

Business Requirement Currently, the AS2 adapter provides a global option to enable or disable duplicate Message-ID checking. Any change to this setting affects all customer and partner connections configured on the adapter. This limitation creates...
2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols Submitted

Provide configuration for Edge Based Route in SEAS Helm Chart

Currently, SEAS creates OpenShift routes using passthrough termination. If a customer wants to use edge termination, they must manually modify the route template provided with the product. Our request is to provide a supported configuration option...
22 days ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration Under review

Add support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 together in same SSL configuration

Adding support for both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 in the same SSL configuration allows clients to automatically negotiate the highest protocol version they support. This provides a smooth transition to TLS 1.3 while maintaining compatibility with existi...
8 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Submitted

Enhance ITX MMap Execution Control with Native Timeout, Safe Termination and External Process Lifecycle Management

Using IBM ITX 11.0.2 (MMap / mpiMapRun) in a high-throughput AKS environment. Lifecycle: load -> run -> abort (if needed) -> wait -> unload Issues observed: abortRun() does not guarantee termination unload() cannot run during execu...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs Submitted

Enhanced mapping filters in Config Hub

Filters for config hub maps are extremely limited. Top tabs should have choices to list both deployed or undeployed maps, filters should enable limiting by resource creating/updating map, last update/create date range, possibly inbound/outbound, p...
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation Under review

Create report that searches all the maps for the codelists they use and provide a downloadable report?

Hi Team — as we transition the Map Search Engine to Config Hub, Currently, we can search by individual codelists and get the list of all the maps using that code list. And the Map Test Tool, will give us all the codelists that a particular map use...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub Future consideration

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