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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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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...
16 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Dynamic Date Range Filter in Scheduled ICC Reports

Description: We request an enhancement to IBM Control Centre(ICC) to allow dynamic date range filtering for scheduled reports—specifically, the ability to configure the Event Date/Time filter to automatically include data from the last X days(>...
17 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 Submitted

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...
18 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR)

Also See: RFI # 2776: Use of Diagnosis Pointers (837 PACDR) | X12 Add a logic to Hipaa compliance check, such that diagnosis pointer used in SV107 in 837P PACDR, and SV311 in 837D PACDR, does NOT exceed the number of diag codes used in HI segment.
21 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance 0 Submitted

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
21 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 0 Submitted

Add Conection to ISERIES Servers

Hello, We need to connect Steling control Center Director to ISERIES Servers to manage the configurations of netmap, secure+, Userfile. Actually its not possible with this software (SCCDirector). We are managing more thant 1500 servers with connec...
21 days ago in Sterling Control Center Director 0 Submitted

EPSDK API should allow caller to specify keystore and truststore for SSL/TLS connections

When Control Center is configured for SSL, an application using the EPSDK should be able to specify the keystore and truststore to use for SSL connections. Currently the EPSDK does a few things that don't work well 1. The SDK sets up a Trust Manag...
22 days ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / APIs & SDKs 0 Under review

tighten up on user mistakes, and educate them

Flush with my last success...ZOSA1679 2/21/2019 Copy File Enhancement- Introduced new field PAG 'SUBMIT MULTI MODE' to allow user for single and multi submit from CF panel ...I have a couple more enhancements that I've just implemented in my site....
24 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 0 Submitted

FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted