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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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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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Compatibility between latest IBM MQ, App Connect Enterprise and Transformation Extender

Our customer currently have IBM MQ, App Connect Enterprise and IBM Transformation Extender. They were exploring the possibility to upgrade to MQ v9.4 and discovered that IBM's online Compatibility report has missing compatibility with Transformati...
about 12 hours ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 0 Submitted

Use temporary filename during file transfert on Unix and Windows

We use Connect Direct to transfert files between several systems to Open system and use IWA (IBM Workload Automation) with file watcher on target system to start automaticlly scripts when a file arrive. It work fine with small files but sometime w...
about 23 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Support Ubuntu OS

Would provide additional options for installation using open-source systems for additional flexibility
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

NCPDP Repetitive fields issue

Hello IBM, There are a few repetitive fields in NCPDP type tree (We are using v51 HISTORY) that when client sends data but skips the first fields and sends data in subsequent fields, ITX typetree treats it as coming in order thus we are not able t...
1 day ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

Automate certificate management

TLS cert life spans are going to become very short by 2029 (https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days). This effectively means that everyone who uses Sterling file transfer products will have to have...
2 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Automated Certificate Lifecycle Management for Sterling B2B Integrator in Alignment with Zero Trust Architecture

Hi, As organizations continue progressing toward Zero Trust Architecture, the importance of secure and streamlined certificate management becomes increasingly critical. We request for enhancement to B2B Certificate management. Current Challenge:To...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Provide native SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) integration connector for IBM Transformation Extender Advanced (ITXA)

Our security group is standardising on SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) for access requests and approvals. SailPoint already ships certified connectors for several IBM platforms (AIX, IBM i, IBM Security Access Manager, etc.) but n...
9 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025
10 days ago in Sterling Gentran & Gentran:Director / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Dynamic Date Range Filter in Scheduled ICC Reports

Description: We request an enhancement to IBM Control Centre(ICC) to allow dynamic date range filtering for scheduled reports—specifically, the ability to configure the Event Date/Time filter to automatically include data from the last X days(>...
10 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted

Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
11 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

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