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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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Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Record API.MAX reports in statistics.

Record API.MAX reports in statistics to support CD tunning.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 3 Not under consideration

Enable Search and Replace functionality through Codelist

Currently B2Bi SAAS have options to Search and Replace characters through map and BPNST rules. However, the customer is looking for easier solution, where instead of the customer would like to add the HEXCODE of the Problematic characters into the...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 0 Not under consideration

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files

Reverse engineer a compiled map to recover the source files.
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Not under consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator support for Postgres open source database

We are being asked to move to Postgres open-source database for cost efficiencies and would like IBM Sterling Integrator to support both Postgres open-source database in an AWS cloud environment and on an on-premise deployment of Postgres. The rea...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Transfers via SFTP to External Mainframe Application (Vendor : DTCC)

IBM Team, We have currently are transfer files to our external vendor DTCC mainframe application via Connect Direct protocol. DTCC has changed the requirement to transfer via SFTP instead of Connect Direct to their mainframe end point. How can the...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Logging user activity - to track user's activity while they navigate on dashboard

As a part of business requirement, we need to log activities related to all users in Sterling Integrator. If a user who is not allowed to view a specific BP data, that should be logged, which can be useful for auditing purpose.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

FTP/SFTP File and Folder permissions

File and Folder permissions for FTP and SFTP appear to be at the server-level, forcing NTFS security. This isn't necessarily negative, however if we change these permissions, we risk breaking other processes on the server when we only want to allo...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt the password of keystore used in CDFA using certificate based authentication

Current IBM document suggest the password used in certificate based authentication is passed to JVM in plain text. Requirement is to encrypt the keystore password similar to user account password in ser file. Setting up TLS and Certificate-Based U...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Support to process files from Multiple Sub-Folders in a single FTP/SFTP connection

Hi Team, We have a requirement where we need to integrate with partners having one FTP/SFTP connection and multiple subfolders. The files should be picked up or placed in different sub-folders within the same FTP/SFTP depending on the message type...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration