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PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...
PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Accept Encrypted password in the SNODEID=(ID,passwd) for UNIX/Windows CD process

Hi Team, While sending files to mainframe where SPOE use is restricted, we have to provide password in plain text in SNODEID=(ID,passwd). This is a major security concern. Hence we want to know if enhancement can be made so that NDM can accept enc...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 6 Not under consideration

Populate DestinationFilename in Inflight view for FINISH flows

The DestinationFilenames are populated only for the flows those have delivery rule and not for the one thats are STOPPED/FINISH in GIODE. During System Testing, it will be helpful to check the DestinationFile name where ususally flows are FINISHED...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Documantation for Third Party Licenses

Hi Support, Our client is asking whether C:D 6.2 uses 3rd party components and libraries. As I cannot find any documentation, please provide related information. And I want to propose for this information released based on every CD version for cli...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

One of B2BI SAAS Customer Feedback Self Service Code list Hanon Feedback - View/Edit Rights to Orchestration code list.

One of SCBN Customer supplier/customer onboarding is unable to do it themselves as they require access to make entries in the orchestration Codelist (SAT Codelist), which they currently do not have. The customer is requesting access to this codeli...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Query that can provide a list of mailboxes that are not a part of any delete services

This report would provide us insight on mailboxes that need to be added to delete services. During onboards, there could be mistakes on adding mailboxes to delete services, and that way we know to update them.
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

CD Requestor for Connect Direct UNIX

There needs to be a way within a Connect Direct UNIX environment to validate a process script without having to copy it on a Windows system and using CD Requestor there. It would be great if CD Requestor or something similar was to be implemented ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Add a utility page where telnet, ping and traceroute can be run

When trying to troubleshoot connectivity issues with API endpoints to backend applications from a PEM cloud instance, it would be very helpful if there was a way that a sponsor admin could run a telnet, ping or traceroute command. This cannot curr...
over 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Other 0 Not under consideration