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Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Support Alma 8

support Alma8 for AWS deployments and open source deployments
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 4 Not under consideration

Add custom filtering to the advanced filter option in the Historical Information Widget

Currently the tables within the tabs of the Historical Information Widget (form views) are able to be sorted but the advance filter option is very limited to only a date range or a (seemingly) random single data point. In my case the data point av...
3 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Rejecting EDI 270 Transaction - Custom Type 7 Business Rule not working as expected in ITXA

Various type of Custom Type 7 Business Rules are not working when trying to validate various segments and elements.
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
5 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 4 Needs more information

Restrict user access to Monitoring section

We have a monitoring team that should not have access to deployment or any section which will make any changes in the environment. Their job is to only monitor the environment. It would be helpful if we could restrict their access to Monitoring ta...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

API to Monitoring download data without logging in

We would like to automate the monitoring process. It is very difficult to login to SST every time and navigate to Monitoring Menu, select all the option and see the very disappointing charts. It would be very useful if we could download the monito...
3 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Postgresql as database (or support sqlserver emulated on aurora - aws babelfish)

We need support on aws aurora or aws sqlserver emulated by aurora (babelfish) as databases for sterling. Aurora is growing more and more and offers several benefits which make it very attractive for companies like ours. In our case, we have moved ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

GET Function to be setup for API Inbound

We have a client named Zimmer BioMet whose business lays in Healthcare sector. They have alot of partner who trade EDI/NON-EDI messages via API Integration. B2BiSaas does provide API as a mode of communication but the requirement in specific to th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 0 Planned for future release