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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...
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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diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 Moduli min bits

As diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256 typically used a minimum of 2048 bits for the key size. However for the stronger security, it's recommended to use 3072 bits or even 4096 in SSP. However, we can't change the min bits of moduli in SSP to ful...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Internal system required certificates prevention

We received the alert for expired certificate in email. We mistakenly removed the expired document encryption cert doccrypto2. After we worked with the support and we found out this cert is required and even it is expired. Our problem is if this i...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Future consideration

Replication Statistics For Global Mailbox

Global Mailbox should be able to out-of-the-box provide specific details on replication between DCs. I should be able to easily find out baseline statistics for replication time between servers. I should be able to see counts for how many files ar...
11 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 6 Functionality already exists

GPM (Graphical Process Modeler)

The current version of GPM does not function with the current Java SDK levels. The last valid Java JDK is Java 1.8.0_281. This fails to meet current Java versions for vulnerability issues. As a result, many will have to justify the need to run an ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 8 Functionality already exists

B2BAC purge for custom B2BI processing events written back to B2BAC MEIGUI Events table

IBM's preferred delivery partner delivered a solution to write certain B2Bi processing events back into the MEIGUI database, EVENTS table so that they can be displayed within the UI of B2BAC. Screen shot attached. There are linked back on the B2BA...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Planned for future release

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...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add TEXT/BINARY mode marker to Connect Direct log file

Current version of Connect Direct does not log the information if transmission was made in TEXT or BINARY mode. This enhancement is to add clear information about used mode (TEXT/BINARY) to the log in CTRC record
over 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Download more than 10,000 lines in InFlight at a time

For billing each month, we are required to pull our own report in InFlight for the amount of documents processed for each month. Currently we are only able to download 10,000 lines at a time into an excel spreadsheet. It is very time consuming to ...
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 0

Data separation Act - Korea ISMS recommendation to separate tables for withdrawn/deleted consumers

According to the Korea regulation, system check was performed by K-ISMS team, and they have identified caveats with storing user related data. As the consumers information is shared across tables like person info, user, order etc., when the user w...
8 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 6 Future consideration