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Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
18 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Future consideration

Connect:Direct limitation retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories.

Connect:Direct has a known limitation when retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories. If you attempt to retrieve ( GET ) a file located in a specific subfolder within a bucket (e.g., /folder1/file), and the user does not have permission to ac...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Future consideration

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Support the update to routing rules during file activity

B2Bi documentation states that Mailbox Routing Rules or FIle Gateway Routing Channels should not be updated during periods of file activity. The consequences of ignoring this are not specified in any detail in the documentation. https://www.ibm.co...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

Code Lists Should Be Searchable

Code Lists should be searchable. It looks like this was done for PEM code lists (https://watsonsupplychain.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/PEM-I-114) but the same functionality was not given to B2Bi. Please remedy!
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Future consideration

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator External Perimeter Server Version details.

Logging the version details of IBM Sterling B2B External Perimeter Server either files like "PSLogger" or "StartupPS.log" or "remote_perimeter.properties" files of IBM external perimeter server. This would be more helpful during below scenario'...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

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 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

"auto-refresh" browser functionality on myFileGateway 2.0

Recently, we observed that when downloading a file through myFileGateway, the file is still displayed by the browser and we must refresh the page to don't see the file anymore in the folder, The case TS006115503 inform us that SI doesn't have this...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

sftp client list service should have configurable parameter to list the number of files.

In certain customer sites, The file count that need to be picked up using sftp client services range from 1 to 100,000 from partner's sftp server. When we use the sftp client list service to list the files (when the file count is at max range) the...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 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...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

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