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Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

New parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID in CD_SRVR.INI

Currently silent installation for Windows allows to provide CD_ADMIN_USERID in CD_SRVR.INI. The enhancement is to add new parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID that would allow to provide Group Name as CD Administrator Group.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under consideration

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.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 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...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

ITX - Allow Launcher logging and adapter tracing to report milliseconds

Customers are reporting performance issues so support has the customer enable the launcher compound system logging the logs only report hour:minute:second. With maps running quickly based on cpu speeds today, often enough customers are trying to f...
10 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Launcher 0 Not under consideration

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

Synching of OMS dynamic attributes with Order Service Search

Hi Team, We have been using OMS get APIs to retrieve order details that are tendered for orchestration purposes. We are now moving to provision Order Service as the single truth of order view and have noticed that some of dynamic attributes are no...
3 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 3 Not under consideration

Enable connection pooling for remote nodes when using CDPLEX

We use the PARSESS ADJACENT.NODE statement to limit parallel sessions from the local node to a remote node based on capacity as agreed with the partner node. When updating our environment to use CDPLEX with multiple server regions, this parameter ...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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 Not under consideration