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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...
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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Improvements to the B2B API framework

B2Bi customers are making large time, resource, and budget investments in automation. These automation projects rely heavily on the B2Bi API framework. The current API framework and documentation do not lend itself to large scale automation projec...
about 13 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Native PGP should perform at least comparatively with Command Line versions of PGP when encrypting large files

Recent versions of B2Bi have included a version of PGP (Native PGP) built into the product which allows users to perform PGP operations within B2Bi rather than having to use the CLA2 adapter to call these operations. This on paper provides many be...
about 10 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 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...
7 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Integrated CDWS for CD Unix

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about 7 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct 2 Future consideration

Features ask for Sterling Global Mailbox

MyFileGateway (HTTP) Security Control Limitation Causing Go-Live of Sterling Global Mailbox Folder Mapping post user creation (after onboarding the user, We want to map the folder at later point of time) Key Integration after The user is onboarded...
2 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Global Mailbox 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...
9 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Support OAuth 2.0 Authentication for RosettaNet PIP Transport (HTTPS)

Business Context Global electronics and semiconductor supply chains are increasingly adopting stricter security standards for B2B integrations. Token-based authentication mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0 are becoming mandatory, even for established in...
22 days ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 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 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...
18 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Eliminate external site cdn.jsdelivr.net dependency for Order Hub to work

Order Hub does not work if there is no connectivity to cdn.jsdelivr.net. This could be a niche usecase. However for customers with that usecase Order Hub is not usable at all. I believe this might be a wider behavior (NextGen Call Center or Store ...
16 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted