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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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    CDU/CDWS Container logging to standard output

    It is common, standard and recommended practice for applications running in OpenShift and Kubernetes pods to log everything to standard output, rather than to log files. I understand that users can keep logs on shared non-ephemeral filesystems out...
    2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Externalizing initparm.cfg configuration Using ConfigMaps and Secrets

    In IBM Connect:Direct containerized deployments running on OpenShift, the initparm.cfg file is generated exclusively during the installation phase and is not designed for dynamic updates. As a result, configuring or modifying integrations with clo...
    17 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

    Enhance Integrated File Agent (IFA) for Windows and Linux allow flexibility as to where the process scripts are stored

    Our team recently converted a Stand Alone File Agent to Integrated File Agent. The imported rules work fine. However, we discovered that when creating a new rule, the process script must be placed in the process directory. No other location is all...
    2 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

    Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

    Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
    19 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

    Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

    As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
    2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

    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...
    4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7

    Limit Company Dropdown in Modern Inflight to only Customer Type = Customer Values for IBMers

    The Company dropdown in Modern Inflight needs to only show Customer Type = Customer values for IBMers users. Currently non-customer types are showing in the list as well and it makes the list too long
    3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

    Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

    We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
    3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

    Support ICAP on SSP FTPS adapters

    SSP's ICAP capability currently only supports Connect:Direct, SFTP, and https (myfg2.0 specifically when exposing myfilegateway). Customers require support for FTPS since many partners globally still use FTPS and will continue to do so.SSP custome...
    26 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Under review

    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.
    3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Functionality already exists

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