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Dashboard should give the possibility in the key creation to add ECDSA keys

Currently when creating SSH keys via the SBI dashboard ( Trading partner --> SSH --> Use Identity key --> create --> New user key ), only RSA and DSA keys encryption can be chosen. But in the real world, companies require much higher a...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Connect Direct Adapter auto recovery

Case TS003985405 was raised to report that the Sterling B2B Integrator Connect Direct Server Adapter does not auto restart if the database connection is broken This leads to file transfer failures and requires a manual restart of the adapter If th...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

To increase the limit of 16 character names (SNODEs) in the Secure+

Good morning Most of our transactions used in our transmission central services must be secured. So we need to use Secure+. Most of our transactions are using DNS value so the CDZ limit of 16 character defined in the network map is affecting us. M...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IdAM integration with either OKTA/ Compact identity provider

Since the customer is from the Banking and Financial sector, IdAM is expected to manage the relationship between an entity and the resources to which access is required. We have raised a PMR ticket (TS012827600) stating that we do not have any doc...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Status "Wait Queue" on SMF record

Add the Wait Queue" statuses (WC, WP, WT, and WX) in the SMF records.
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove/hide the IP address (other address) from the transmission copy step screen.

Request for enhancement for Batch Operations: The Batch Operations team manages file transfer for latency and errors 24x7/365. Part of this process is sending a screenshot to the client, vendor or internal team to work through getting the failures...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enhanced messaging for various message states within job log to allow automation

Today - the only way to verify message processing is to log into Connect:Direct and check the current status. We would like it when messages go into the various states (specifically a wait state) for a message to put but out to the started task jo...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add capability to hard fail SSL error processes

When an SSL handshake error occurs, the process is placed in HO ER status. This does not trigger the same error alerts as file transfer failures when the process is pushed into HO ER status. If the same alert triggering would occur from session se...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

Enchance Connect:Direct for OS390 to support PDS to PDSE object-type dataset transfer

Connect:Direct cannot perform PDS to PDSE object-type dataset COPY.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Not under consideration