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Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Planned for future release

Add support in SEAS for configuring the number of failed password attempts before account lockout.

Currently, SEAS does not provide an option to set or customize the number of failed password attempts before locking an account. This limitation prevents administrators from enforcing organization-specific security policies.The requested enhanceme...
12 days ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Replacing LDAP with ISVG

In our company we are replacing LDAP with other security, for IBM Sterling also we need to replace LDAP with ISVG, I raised case for this and told ISVG is not tested with IBM Sterling SEAS product, As we need to replace LDAP with ISGV, Could you p...
9 days ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 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.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Read-only capability of Sterling File Gateway

We request a read-only option for Sterling File Gateway. The current setup allows us to create partner profiles and routing channels, but we need the ability to grant certain users read-only permissions so they can simply view existing configurati...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Reporting 0 Submitted

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
over 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
over 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

SFTP: Emit a Communication Session entry (or equivalent event) for each authentication failure attempt, including attempt number and reason

Product / Component IBM Sterling B2B Integrator / SFG – SFTP Server Adapter Current Behavior For SFTP, authentication may fail up to multiple times within a single SSH session negotiation. These failures do not produce distinct Communication Sessi...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

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