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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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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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    Support for Arbitrary User ID in IBM Connect:Direct Container Images

    Modify the Connect:Direct container image to enable running it with a random UID. OpenShift Security Context Constraints (SCCs) assign random user IDs at runtime while maintaining group ID 0 (root group) for security purposes. This security model...
    20 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

    Enhance Integrated File Agent (IFA) for Windows and Linux allow flexibility as to where the process scripts are stored

    Our team recently converted a Stand Alone File Agent to Integrated File Agent. The imported rules work fine. However, we discovered that when creating a new rule, the process script must be placed in the process directory. No other location is all...
    3 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 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...
    2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 4 Needs more information

    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...
    4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7

    SFG Redelivers files multiple times once Redeliver button is triggered from SFG UI.

    Current Behavior: When the SFG operator/user wants to redeliver/replay one/multiple files and ticks on the checkbox before the file name (as shown in Fig1) then this/these files are put into queue for redeliver/replay and are picked-up by the “Fil...
    29 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Eliminate external site cdn.jsdelivr.net dependency for Order Hub to work

    Order Hub does not work if there is no connectivity to cdn.jsdelivr.net. This could be a niche usecase. However for customers with that usecase Order Hub is not usable at all. I believe this might be a wider behavior (NextGen Call Center or Store ...
    27 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

    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.
    3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 5 Needs more information

    Transformations/Envelopes Please Remove Production facing Envelopes from view in CTE Next Envelope choice list.

    It is confusing and might lead to issues, if permitted to select a Next Envelope on a CTE envelope that does not actually exist in CTE. For example, in the screenshots attached, when searching for a next envelope, the list provides 4 GS envelopes,...
    5 days ago in Self Service Tool 0 Submitted

    Allow all decryption ciphers for OFTP according to the official Odette specifications

    We were told that the SI software is coded based upon https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5024#section-10.2 which only includes 2 ciphers for decryption and these are outdated. Companies are switching to a more secure cipher which prevents us...
    6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    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...
    3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

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