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Add support for CNAMEs/aliases in the initparms.cfg port.check:\:trusted.addr

As long as the CNAME/alias is addressable, administrators should be able to use it for the port.check:\:trusted.addr parameter. We have AWS ec2 instances that are running CD UNIX behind a load balancer. When a new deployment is run, the DNS name a...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 4 Needs more information

Protocol Profile ID in receive step

For Outbound files we display PPID in delivey step, bt for Inbound or Outbound files we do not display PPID in inflight steps. For example, for any Inbound file in receive step we can see communication details, the attached screenshot shows AS2_me...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 0 Future consideration

To change PROCESS library FB80 requirement

Scenario: CD transmissions between z/OS and Windows or Linux. Large Windows and Unix FileNames have to be constructed via concatenation of multiple tokens (strings and symbols). The reason is the PROCESS library is required to be RECFM=FB LRECL=80...
about 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Hooks to enable the SSO Authentication for SSPDashboard URL

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 4 Not under consideration

Traffic Throttle Mechanism per User/Customer in SFG

There was an instance when a customer uploaded huge number of files every second due to an issue on the customer side which broke the system on our side. We have a traffic throttle mechanism requirement where we can throttle the traffic in SFG pe...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Future consideration

EASI standards in Sterling Integrator

Hi , Please let me know how we can incorporate EASI standards into our Sterling Integrator map editor . We have Trading Partners that want send data & receive data via EASI standards . The EASI transactions used are mostly 850,856,810,846 . We...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Mapping & Translation 1 Is a defect

More algorithms support for diffie-hellman

Understand that current supported SSH Key Exchange Algorithms:diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1 However, is it possible to support more diffie-hellman algorithm? Example, diffie-hellman-gro...
over 6 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 0 Planned for future release

podman support for PEM

RHEL 8 native provides podman instead of docker. While it's possible to install docker ce on RHEL, that puts the user into unsupported area with RHEL 8 support. Would like to have podman as a support container engine.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 3 Planned for future release

Develop SEAS to intelligently query for IPs that come from a subnet and allow them in if that subnet is in an LDAP attribute

Why useful? Useful because these days a lot of trading partners are coming from cloud environments that aren't front-ended by one (or a handful) IP address. Who benefits? Anyone who desires to whitelist IPs as a means of authentication or just as ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Functionality already exists

Claim Level Rejction

ITX-I-210 was an enhancement to claim level rejection to change from looking at only CLM01 to look at the entire CLM segment when checking for duplicates. This enhance was released in 10.2.1. We have found that we are still having issues with enti...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender 4 Not under consideration