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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...
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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...
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    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...
    1 day ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Submitted

    Provide an option to perform non-recursive file listing on AWS S3 buckets in Sterling B2B Integrator.

    Currently, the AWS S3 list operation in Sterling B2B Integrator is always recursive. When a bucket (or its subfolders) contains a very large number of files, the list operation becomes extremely heavy. This causes Business Processes to hang, time ...
    about 12 hours ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

    Known Host Key Configuration - Host Value - expand characters limitation

    On 6.2.0.2 of SSP, using the new REACT's interface SSL : To create a new "Known Host Key Configuration" in Known Host Key Store, the field Host IP (optional) is limited to the following characters : .:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST...
    about 5 hours ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Onboarding 0 Submitted

    Ability to create DET's on currency table to account for significant variations in the exchange rate

    We encountered a situation where currency conversion has been applied in a separate SAP table which is not part of the standard connectors extract. That's result in values in MIO being incorrectly displayed and MIO and associated analytics reports...
    1 day ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

    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...
    22 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

    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.
    29 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Under review

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

    Limit Company Dropdown in Modern Inflight to only Customer Type = Customer Values for IBMers

    The Company dropdown in Modern Inflight needs to only show Customer Type = Customer values for IBMers users. Currently non-customer types are showing in the list as well and it makes the list too long
    22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Submitted

    The customer BALT-EMEA is asking to receive on daily base an overview in .CSV format via mail of the EDI’s received/sent at CEVA of the day before

    The customer BALT-EMEA is asking to receive on daily base an overview in .CSV format via mail of the EDI’s received/sent at CEVA of the day before. Most optimal would be using the data in the InflightSearchReport which we can already trigger manua...
    6 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Submitted

    Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

    Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.
    18 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Needs more information

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