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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...
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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Provision to enable creating Resource Pool for Service Items from UI [either SBC or Order HUB]

Today we are able to create Resource Pool for Node Capacity, however we dont have a way other than using OOB Api to create resource pool for Services. It would be a good to have configuration in UI to create resource pool for Provided services and...
4 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Not under consideration

Compatibility between latest IBM MQ, App Connect Enterprise and Transformation Extender

Our customer currently have IBM MQ, App Connect Enterprise and IBM Transformation Extender. They were exploring the possibility to upgrade to MQ v9.4 and discovered that IBM's online Compatibility report has missing compatibility with Transformati...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Integration Servers 3 Planned for future release

Fix "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system" Error when launching Graphical Process Modeler

When launching GPM it produces and error message "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system". There is a workaround currently but this request is to have a permanent fix included in a future version of Sterling Integrator. The ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists

Support Additional methods of smtp authentication

PEM currently only supports basic authentication for SMTP. ( user id, password ). At most, it does allow you to select between smtp and smtps. However, smtp providers have been moving away from basic authentication for some time. PEM does not allo...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Future consideration

Logs for who viewed/downloaded files in SFG

Currently we have users in sterling file gateway where these users have permissions to view and replay files. We would like to see who viewed the files from the SFG console. We have looked at ui.logs, security.logs, authentication.logs but we don'...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Use temporary filename during file transfert on Unix and Windows

We use Connect Direct to transfert files between several systems to Open system and use IWA (IBM Workload Automation) with file watcher on target system to start automaticlly scripts when a file arrive. It work fine with small files but sometime w...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 6 Not under consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Make Gentran compatible with Windows 11.

Most companies are moving toward Windows 11 and Gentran is currently not supporting this version.