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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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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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    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...
    2 days ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 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...
    16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Under review

    Standardise Audit Report for Configuration Changes

    The Dashboard Audit Report is not consistent when reporting on operator IDs making configuration changes. Most configuration changes, e.g. adapters, partner profiles, business processes, are logged on the Audit Report under the User ID that made t...
    15 minutes ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Performance optimization of critical functions SQL queries

    As query.getStateAndStatus_MAIN* is used to know the state and state of BP across different workflows which is common use case for many clients across the industry. On a high volume application environment this query is taking more than 10+ mins a...
    2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

    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...
    13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    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...
    2 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 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 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 1 month ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

    Standardise Audit Report for Configuration Changes

    The Dashboard Audit Report is not consistent when reporting on operator IDs making configuration changes. Most configuration changes, e.g. adapters, partner profiles, business processes, are logged on the Audit Report under the User ID that made t...
    5 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

    SSL Certificates Management (CA, Trusted, System)

    Certificate management in SB2Bi requires a lot of handling because nothing is managed dynamically. To establish an HTTPS connection, it is necessary to specify the SSL server certificate (CA Certificate) to be used for negotiating the transaction....
    13 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

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