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Allow for periods in Provisional Facts in SFG

In Sterling File Gateway, when elected to use a provisional fact in a Routing Channel Template, it does not all for periods in the value you can input when creating the routing channel. This causes the need for a custom business process and compli...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Planned for future release

Sterling Integrator JMS Adapter Issue in consuming messages

There is an issue that happens when an outside source sends a file with a “null” message inside the message body to the B2Bi JMS adapter: the Sterling JMS adapter process is going into an endless loop when receiving the Null value inside the body ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Is a defect

BPID shows active on queue watcher but UI shows terminated, some how the queue watcher JVM is out of synch with UI

I believe this being a bug or lack of functionality, Although this particular BPID was terminated from the UI then also via the command line -ControllerWorkFlow script but will not be remove from queue watcher! And also showed as terminated on UI....
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Alert mechanism for when Active BPs reach a certain threshold

Customizable alert mechanism of Active BPs - When Active BPs reach a certain threshold alert email should be sent. If we get this option in IBM B2Bi, it will be of great help as it is a proactive measure for Admins / stakeholders who supports IBM ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Integrate iKeyman with Connect Direct Web Services

IBM Control Center and IBM Connect Direct Secure + both have iKeyman integrated/included with the product. Why isn't this the case for Connect Direct Web Services?
over 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle Linux

Regarding Connect:Direct(Managed File Transfer), We would like to request getting support for Oracle Linux as soon as possible.
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

NFS directory restrictions requires world execute permission

Root squash enabled NFS directories cause an issue with C:D requiring world execute permission on every directory in the path when using the upload/download directory parameters. We want to be able to use upload/download restrictions without havin...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Future consideration

Enhance C:D Rest API cdwebconsole/svc/processcontrolcriterias to allow definition of symbolic parameter values

The current approach enables to execute a static/hardcoded locally stored CDP process. This approach is very limited as for example you cannot specify a specific file name in a copy step to be transferred when executing. Therefore please extend th...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Implement Secure UDP for Connect Direct File Agent

Our internal security standards want all traffic to be encrypted. Currently, File Agent uses standard UDP (SNMP) to send messages to Control Center. The goal is to have this traffic encrypted. We are being told that in a couple years the PCI DSS s...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Future consideration

Remove the requirement for a keystore password when running a silent upgrade

A manual upgrade does not require a keystore password, but a silent upgrade does. Removing the need for this keystore password would simplify the silent upgrade process and be more secure.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration