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All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.
2 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Security 1 Needs more information

Config Hub - Pop up warning if Customer/Support/Dev Team updating the Codelist values in CTE to PROD for the variant type Codelist

We are using the Codelist Solution for below scenarios and if anyone inserted the wrong data due to confusion or manual error it will effect the lot of transactions failing or due to data missing in output files. Below are the scenarios: We are us...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Under review

MyFileGateway interaction when PEM/PCM is installed

This affects businesses who use "MyFileGateway" to allow their external customers to upload files. Have a customer need for MyFleGateway, when integrated with PEM/PCM to pull file transfer upload success/failure and/or routing information from PCM...
5 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add an SSP's setting to Increase/Decrease from SSP 64K Buffer Size up to 128K

1. By default, SSP uses an RU (Resource Unit) Buffer Size of 48K RU when passing through file. 2. When a PNode is sending in Secure+ mode, it encrypts the data into 16k SSLB buffers and stuffs them into an RU. SSP must unload these SSLBlocks and d...
5 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Performance 0 Submitted

PCM File Reprocessing

User would like the ability to see the status updating with the appropriate status once a file has been reprocessed. Example when a file has been reprocessed user would like to see the different stages the file is flowing though (Processed, Timed ...
7 months ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 0 Submitted

expand password length to 100 Characters

Consistency of all IBM products to allign with the RACF maximum Password/Passphrase Lengths,
3 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

AD/LDAP authentication in ICC

Currently we are required to use SEAS for LDAP authentication. However, using SEAS as any tool will add more resources to the worker pool. While deploying SEAS does not require a license, there is a cost involved in adding CPU and memory to SEAS P...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Under review

Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Enable Online Customer Protocol Creations

In order to maintain flexibility of the platform, while reducing the impact of change live Business Processes called by existing protocols, Sterling should allow the creation of new custom protocols online, and not need a full shutdown to take eff...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists