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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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 5 Future consideration

Sterling to support Active Directory or Entra (security) group

Active Directory Security group help our organization to 1. process MACD especially Add and Remove members 2. managerial attestation (employees are removed from accessing Sterling as soon as he/she leaves the company. In our case, we have many int...
about 4 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Provide Application Security Logging

Based on case TS020418213 and meeting with Rishabh Jindal it became clear that currently Connect Direct for windows is not able to provide application security logging based on the requirements of ABN AMRO internal policies and standards. We would...
about 5 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

Support for Oracle 23ai

Oracle have renamed Oracle 23c to Oracle 23ai as of May 2024. Customers technology stacks are being updated to use RHEL9 and Oracle 23ai so we need this to be supported. Although there is no general purpose on premise version other than Oracle23ai...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / 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
12 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

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

Document Object Storage for Connect Direct Adapter

as documented on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=container-document-service there is object storage available for most of the adapters but not C:D. this is the main roadblock from stopping us from adopting Object storage for...
18 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

new version CD to microfocus

Regarding to particular case, we have detected that EBCDIC Microfocus Gravity (JLC emulation) conversions with UNIX origin to Snode UNIX do not support line break translations. The EBCDIC to ISO8859-1 codepage works, but any additional parameters ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Extend field length in table SBIADMIN.SCI_ENTITY_EXTNS to accommodate longer encrypted passwords

We are working to configure the Object Client Store Adapter as documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=z-object-store-client-adapter When we attempt to use/store the encrypted credential, our Trading Partners become co...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

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

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