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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...
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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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 4 hours ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Under review

Request for Multi‑Endpoint / Automatic Failover Support for S3 IO Exit in Connect:Direct

During multiple production runs, we observed intermittent S3 transfer failures in Connect:Direct. The failures are inconsistent, and not all transfers are affected. Our internal teams (SRE, Storage/S3, and Network) are continuing deeper analysis, ...
about 12 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Performance 0 Submitted

Logs retain for compliance requirement

CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) guidelines mandate that entities like service providers, data centers, and corporations must maintain logs of their ICT systems securely within India for a minimum, rolling period of 180 days, and ...
1 day ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Support OData in Sterling Integrator

With SAP supporting OData (Open Data protocol) , could Sterling Integrator also support it in coming versions?

Enable full control of purge operations in UI without extra pod

Given our Openshift deployment pattern, it is not feasible in the Production environment to have to edit the helm values to change some purge parameters in either the cron or config map. All purge operations should be able to be handled within the...

Databricks connector for SB2Bi

Today, Databricks is a major player in the data industry. The strategic directions of the Group have led to the construction of an Azure Data Lake, and the data management solution implemented to ingest, process, and expose data in this DL is Data...

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

Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Needs more information

Use a custom filename for the zip file when using the getMultipleDocumentGet REST API

The sfgapis getMultipleDocumentGet is to bundle one or more documents from B2B into a zip file and receive this zip as response. http://<Install_Host>:<Liberty_port>/sfgapis/ Using the getMultipleDocumentGet sfgapi there's no option to...
about 2 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted