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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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Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Do not route .part or .lock

We have had a situation where transfers were interrupted and the source kept connecting and startting a transfer and then disconnecting (poorly written in Azure) and it cause ALOT (30 plus) .partial and .lock files. And since this upload directory...
3 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 0 Submitted

Create the configuration file (bin file) with LCU.bat from an input file

In order to avoid a lot of manual work and administration, we would like to automate the creation of the configuration file (bin file) that is currently done with LCU.bat. For example, with this kind of command: LCU.bat < Config.txt or LCU.bat ...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 3 Functionality already exists

Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 5 Not under 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...
10 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor 6 Functionality already exists

AS4 flow resiliency updates

Enhancements: Alerting mechanism to identify if the messages stuck in Kafka queue. Increase the number of retries to other Network if there are any network failure's causing the messages stuck in Kafka queue.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

DTXDS APIs for the Launcher

We are currently trying to automate a bit our software lifecycle management and we would like to automate the compilation and deployment of maps on our Linux system. We are using Azure pipeline for this automatization and we would like to have a w...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

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

Extension of maximum length for schedule parameters

schedule parameters in B2BI seems to have maximum length of 100 characters. This became evident when a b2b rest api failed to create a schedule parameter for remote pull directory location which was more than 100 characters long. This should be in...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future 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...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

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