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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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compression at the HTTP layer

It would be good to have option like (something like compress="True") to compress the file at HTTP layer, to achieve this do we have any parameter set any of the HTTP Services/adapter level at HTTP Begin Session service/HTTP Client Method service ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 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...
about 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance DTK to run in exploded mode

Developers need a way to deploy customizations quickly and run tests on the tool kit. In the non-docker solution, there was a exploded mode deployment wherein the custom.jar can be replaced, appserver bounced to perform unit testing No such opt...
5 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Not under consideration

HULFT is a next-generation enterprise solution for managed file transfer (MFT)

file transfer
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator support for Postgres open source database

We are being asked to move to Postgres open-source database for cost efficiencies and would like IBM Sterling Integrator to support both Postgres open-source database in an AWS cloud environment and on an on-premise deployment of Postgres. The rea...
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Logging user activity - to track user's activity while they navigate on dashboard

As a part of business requirement, we need to log activities related to all users in Sterling Integrator. If a user who is not allowed to view a specific BP data, that should be logged, which can be useful for auditing purpose.
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 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 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 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 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 3 Not under consideration