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Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

SPE Transformation Service adding CDATA for Process Data update

CDATA is adding a prefix in process data for ITXA transformation when actual data contains "&" in the input file which is causing the issue. Currently, with SI transformation/translation service, the prefix is not getting added. However, in...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Using Generic Inbound GS and ST Envelopes

We have data that comes in with multiple GS ID values for the senders. If one of those GS envelope IDs is not included in ITX-A, the entire payload fails with a missing envelope entry. We need to process all the valid envelopes and not process the...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Provide native SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) integration connector for IBM Transformation Extender Advanced (ITXA)

Our security group is standardising on SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) for access requests and approvals. SailPoint already ships certified connectors for several IBM platforms (AIX, IBM i, IBM Security Access Manager, etc.) but n...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Support VAST Storage S3 implementation

Customers who have chosen VAST Data's storage platform need to be able to read and write using the S3 APIs from SFG/B2Bi. The B2Bi Object Storage adapter needs to be certified for use with VAST's implementation of S3 (https://www.vastdata.com/blog...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

Enable authentication by token on the Sterling B2B REST API

Seems like currently the B2B REST API only supports authentication of basic type, where username/password is sent in header of get/post/put HTTP call. Can there be a mechanism to authenticate via bearer token? Thanks very much!
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 2 Planned for future release

Add B2Bi REST API audit logs

B2Bi Rest API is becoming common in several solutions but there is not a proper audit log file or report to verify information like " USER - ACTION / API - TIMESTAMP" It is difficult to understand what is actually being consumed, by whom and how o...
about 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 4 Planned for future release

Add Source File and Destination File to the ITXA process event sent to Control Center

The Source File and Destination File is not included in the event from ITXA to Control Center. As seen here. This needs to be included in the event to see the complete picture. This can be reproduced by following the instructions in the blog. http...
11 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Add comprehensive security-audit logging to IBM ITXA (auth events, privilege changes, high-risk data actions, administrative activity)

During Case TS018931782 we learned that ITXA currently logs only technical runtime events (tpuiserver, system logs). No built-in audit trail exists for: Required security event Current ITXA capability Failed login / logout attempts None Successful...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Fine grained authorisation for REST services

It seems any user in APIUser can execute any Product service. In our solution we might want to permission different users (identified by an access token , I've raised other Ideas for that) to have different access to services (proxied through the ...
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Future consideration