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New Inflight should have choice of Search by Reference Number in topdrop down

Hello Team, Greetings ! We are raising this RFE on behalf of a request from IBM Managed Services Customer. The request is to include a Reference number search drop-down beside the current drop-down to search for doc direction in the new Inflight D...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Delivered

Connect Direct Z/OS Password-less Sign-On : Use certificate authentication for the CD session. CD currently supports this for the API connection (e.g. port 1363) and exploring if this could be added for the server connection (i.e. port 1364). The goal would be to use the certificate Common Name as the user ID as we do for the API connection or expand to allow other sources for the user ID – Jobname, SPOE, in-line SIGNON, batch user ID, etc. – and define order of precedence.

Issue Description: Client has security initiative to remove passwords being exposed in jobs. If there is a sign on ID used it is ignored if there is a password less ID and defaults to the job card ID. If client removes password from the sign-on ca...
12 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Delivered

ITX - Extend validation exception handling for messages with a known structure BUT an unknown (as more recent) version

Currently ITX FinPay routing map identifies a messages based on the tag <FIToFICstmrCdtTrf> in Document and not based on message name and its version (pacs.008.001.08). This causes a problem when a message based on a more recent version is r...
almost 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Maps & Type Trees 0 Delivered

Different key usage of master key and its associated subkeys.

In PGP, the master key and its associated subkeys have different usage (SCEA). PUBKEY_USAGE_SIG S PUBKEY_USAGE_CERT C PUBKEY_USAGE_ENC E PUBKEY_USAGE_AUTH A In SI with GPG, we only need to define the master key for Trading Partner and GPG will ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Delivered

To permit templates with more than one item

SCCD permits to create templates to Secure+/netmap/userfile/Initparm ... But it must be created one Template for every item. So, if you'd like to add one server in a netmap you must create one template (there is no problem). But if you'd like to ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Delivered

To compare userfile/netmap files between servers

It will be very useful be able to compare entire userfile/netmap files between servers. We have seen that's it's possible to compare only one item but it's needed to compare entire files to identify differences between both files.
about 2 years ago in Sterling Control Center Director 2 Delivered

Be able to remove expired or revoked certificates

In the SST, we have over 50 certificates, but only a few are actually used. I would like a way within SST to remove certificates that are not being used.
about 2 years ago in Self Service Tool 4 Delivered

Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0.1 - Support Oracle 18c (18.4) on AIX OS

Can you please confirm support for Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0.1 - Support Oracle 18c (18.4) on AIX OS. If it's not supported currently what is the roadmap for future releases?
about 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

RHEL8/RH8 Support for IBM Secure Proxy

SSPCM currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a new instance of SSPCM and its components onto RHEL7 and then repeating the process again on RHEL8 once its supported. It'd be extremely useful t...
about 5 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

LDAP support for IBM Sterling Transformation Extender Design Server

I need to authenticate ITX Designer Server users on the external LDAP server. So, I'd like to request this feature URGENTLY to be compliant with security policies from the company.
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 1 Delivered