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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...
23 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

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...
25 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Test compatibility windows server 2025 and SSP

Our organization want to migrate from windows server 2019 to windows server 2025 by 4th quarter of 2026
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 5 Future consideration

Sterling Secure Proxy HSM Integration to store TLS certificate encryption key only

Many organizations use SSP for TLS sessions termination and authenticate clients in presentation zone. The volumes would be high in general, with HSM integration and security mandates each TLS connection has to communicate with HSM for TLS offload...
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Future consideration

Lightweight container option for CDU/CDW

Enterprise customers often have many hundreds of C:D nodes which are installed on application servers so that they can exchange files for/with the applications. This causes challenges for evergreening due to change management requirements with the...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Future consideration

Integrated CDWS for CD Unix

No description provided
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 2 Future consideration

CDWS API for the update Key Certificates with certificate path

Currently The API /cdwebconsole/svc/securepluskeycertificate is looking for "certificateData": "", which needed certificate content to be copied but it would be good if the API allows us to provide the certificate and use it.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Accessing Queue Watcher dashboard for each ASI Pod

Currently for Container based deployment of Sterling integrator we are not seeing any provision to access QueueWacther page for each individual ASI POD. If we have multiple ASI Pods and If we access queueWatcher page then it opens up from any of A...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

API required in CDWS for cfgcheck

Currently, CD UNIX provides the cfgcheck script, which validates the following configuration files: initparm.cfg userfile.cfg netmap.cfg Default_Config.json This script performs validation and reports any configuration issues, including duplicate ...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Future consideration

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) roles for integration between S3 adapter and S3 buckets.

Today, SBI only supports access to AWS S3 buckets via secret and access keys. While keys can be configured, the preference from our security and cloud team is to have ARN roles supported as key management becomes difficult with rotating keys every...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Future consideration