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Support ITX on Windows Server 2025

Customer needs to install ITX on Windows Server 2025
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Installation Planned for future release

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...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Planned for future release

improve house cleaning efficiency

We at FEPOC has been using this product together with ITXA and ITX since 2019. The issue here is that the house cleaning jobs are not keeping up with the high volume we process every day. See the detail word document in support ticket TS018931836....
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance Planned for future release

Show the filename in the Job report within Configuration Hub

When troubleshooting or reviewing completed jobs, it would be helpful to see the filename that was used for the job. The "Job specifics report" could show the filename.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other Planned for future release

Add Change Description/Comments on imports completed through Jobs

When using the Jobs import process to load a new version of a map or code list, there needs to be a Change Description/Comment option to be able to put in details or a case#
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other Planned for future release

Confighub – Business Alias Name Not Displayed in Code Lists and Maps

Currently, we have several customers where identical code lists and maps are deployed across multiple Business Aliases (BAs) under the same customer account. This setup creates confusion for both customers and support teams, as it becomes difficul...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other Planned for future release

Provide ProcessID as top-level field in the InFlight search screen

We would prefer to have the 'Process ID' displayed as a top-level field on the InFlight search screen, instead of being hidden under the 'Business Fields' section.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight Planned for future release

Update Connect:Direct to Support Newer Visual C++ Runtime

Currently, IBM Connect:Direct for Windows version 6.4.x requires Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 12.0 (2013). As confirmed in support case, this dependency cannot be removed and there is no ETA for modernization. Many enterprise security team...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security Planned for future release

SFTP - Bulk upload JSON file for both inbound/outbound directions at once.

When creating SFTP connection on CH using AI, we only have option to do Bulk upload via JSON either for inbound direction or outbound direction. We need JSON upload for both directions at once. This would help users to create connection at once. C...
23 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Config Hub Planned for future release

Request to extend AS2 user password length to 100 or more chars, and/or enable User Identity Key authentication method for AS2

We are unable to accommodate AS2 connections to CPI due to username and password length limitations. This has a risen during a POC with client Haleon who have already commited to a further 6 connections that we currently can't facilitate. We have ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols Planned for future release

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