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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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Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Include validation for T2S messages in ITX for Financial Payments pack PLUS

The support of T2S had been requesed in 2022 but was't taken into consideration. We are resubmitting this request to be reconsidered for the next ITX Financial Payments roadmap. Banks need to validate MX T2S messages as well. The current ITX FinPa...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Support for with PostgreSQL

The request is for IBM Sterling B2B integrator and SFG to support PostgreSQL
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

ITXA - Need Utility to Perform Performance Testing

We are needing some type of Performance Testing Utility that users can use to test for Memory issues, Responses when running multiple instances of a job.
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Planned for future release

It's regarding the Product SPE or Config Center - Outbound Envelope Search with the filter Next Envelope

ConfigCenter Envelope Feature Existing: In Outbound Envelope Search scenario in Config Center, there is no option for searching outbound ST/GS envelope with the GS/ISA envelope as Next Envelope. Problem: We have worked on couple of cases where Cus...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 2 Future consideration

Need for a B2B Integrator MONITORING  REST API

Need for a B2B Integrator REST API to return the following counts: *Number of Active, Halted, Waiting, Interrupted BPs. * Database usage KPIs : used space and free space. * Queue Depth. * Heap usage
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Planned for future release

Mask or Don't Include Passwords In Connect Direct Process Scripts that have been built in Connect Direct Web Services or Connect Direct Browser UI

Currently when a user builds a process in CDWS or CD Browser UI, the password is in plain text if a pnode/snode ID is used with password. This is a security vulnerability and should be addressed. We realize that there is no way to stop a user from...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Wildcards to send PDS datasets to Linux/Windows directories

Actually it's not possible to send PDS members from CDzOS to CDLinux or CDWindows, using wildcards, f.i. USER.PDS.DSN(*) to /user/path/*. We have several applications that are using other products like XCOM or MQFTE, and with these products it's p...

Sterling API Gateway Enablement: Enable Customer Company for ‘connections’ option through SCBN Hub

When a customer company name is given Config Hub access, only the self-service of Codelist and map gets enabled. To setup API Gateway configuration, the development team has to manually run an API to get the Connection parameter enabled in Config ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Future consideration

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration