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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 additional information when Session High Water Mark is reached

For Product id 5665-X09, record the number of active PRIMARY (PNODE) sessions and the number of active SECONDARY (SNODE) sessions when the session high water mark is reached. Record as much additional information as is reasonably possible in the s...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 1 Delivered

C:D for z/OS to support the allocation of PDSE V2 datasets

Currently, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for z/OS (CDZ) does not support the allocation of PDSE Verion 2 (V2) data sets. Customer has the requirement to use the CDZ function to transfer PDSE V2 data sets for program deployment between testing and pr...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Single Sign-on (SSO) with SAML or OIDC authentication is required for the Sterling User Interfaces (UIs), including C:D, SSP, SEAS, SFG, SCCM and SCCD. Migration from a legacy LDAP connection to a federated (SAML or OIDC) connection is required for all UIs, by US Federal Agencies.

This is required to comply with US Federal Security requirements mandated to all US Federal Agencies.
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Delivered

Providing a list of supported encryption keys.

VENDOR supported Keys Keys that will be supported RSA (3072) Ed25519 ECDSA (nistp521) The feedback from the PepsiCo ECG team below is we only accept the following supported keys: PepsiCo supported keys ssh -rsa 2048, ssh-rsa 1024, ssh-rsa , ssh-dss
almost 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Delivered

Ability to Search 3+ Sender/Receiver ID's in New InFlight

Currently in New Inflight it is not possible to search or preclude different Sender / Receiver ID's. This would allow the client to search for results across many Different ID rather than have to search each ID one at a time, this saving time.
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Delivered

Extensions to Compress with Connect:Direct

Our clients who are transferring from Connect:Direct are using windows.However, because of the smaller lrecl of the file being transferred, it will not be compressed for the following third specification: 1) CD z/OS to CD z/OS transfer will be in ...
about 6 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Delivered

Add support for AWS S3 storage as the back end file system instead of requiring a Clustered File System/NAS Share

AWS EFS does not provide adequate performance or HA to be used as the back end file system for file storage, and EBS can not be clustered across multiple nodes. Native support for S3 object storage would enable us to take advantage of the upcoming...

Support for MS Windows Server 2019

Please add Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to the list of supported OSes for Connect:Direct for Windows v4.7 and higher.

Add TLS 1.3 Support to Sterling External Authentication Server

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over 6 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 4 Delivered

Support SFTP as a file transfer option for deployments from IFD

My IT shop has moved away from FTP in favor of SFTP for all internal file transfers between servers. The Integration Flow Designer (IFD) within the WTX Design Studio only supports FTP as the sole file transfer protocol when utilizing the deploymen...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Delivered