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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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Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Please provide an option to retrieve or reset the admin password.

We require a solution to reset or recover the SSP CM admin password, which is essential for exporting and importing configurations across various environments.
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

retrieve the entitlement_mode for payloads and events records

When using the Trace API - Get Payload or Events - I do not get the information for attribute "entitlement_mode". This could be helpfull to check what entitlement mode is currently applied. This already works for Products, Locations.
4 months ago in SCIS Transparent Supply Application 0 Future consideration

Support Native Authentication to SQL server databases in jdbc pools

Security teams are asking for zero trust setups when connecting systems to each other. Part of that is wanting to use centralized service accounts instead of local access. currently, B2Bi is only supported to make SQL server pools with local authe...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Submitted

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step - PEPPOL Flow

Hi Team, This idea is to enable SAPSTAT message generation during Schematron validation step for outbound PEPPOL messages. As per the PEPPOL guidelines, We have enabled PEPPOL validation step for all the PEPPOL outbound messages for the SCBN clien...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 3 Future consideration

Provide option in configuration to set to OOB where OOB recommendations are greater than standard configured Service Level configurations.

This would provide greater availability while saving on purchasing costs, etc.
5 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Under review

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration