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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...
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...

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With advancement of technology, Connect Direct needs to compatible with new OS versions and DB versions

We noticed that Connect Direct ver 6.0 is only compatible with Windows 2016 and SQL 2016. There are new versions of both Windows and SQL are available like SQL 2017, SQL 2019. ABN AMRO who is one of the prestigious strategic customer of IBM is usi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Delivered

Single sign on(SSO) Implementation for External Connection Via SSP for B2Bi Docker

It was noticed that the current steps(mentioned in below link) for SSO implementation is not suitable for External connection Via SSP/SEASfor docker based B2Bi install. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6PNW_6.0.0/com.ibm.help.ssp.s...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 0 Delivered

Using EC2 Profile to access AWS S3 buckets

SI 6.0.2 has an S3 client but mandates the use of access and secret keys to connect to AWS S3 buckets. It does not allow the use of Assume IAM role or EC2 profiles to access S3 . Assume IAM role/EC2 Profiles eliminate the need to store and maintai...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Delivered

SFTP Connector for ITX

It's impossible to do SFTP (FTP over SSH) with FTP adapter with ITX 9.
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Delivered

Load balancer IP Address in the log messages generated by inbound traffic should be suppressed

Provide a configuration which could suppress the Load balancer health check pings in the log files...

Support for OCSP in SEAS

OCSP should be an alternative to use CRL /LDAP protocol for checking for revoked certiificates .

Rebrand Control Center Web Console and login page

Hi, Similar to sterling filegateway and my filegateway and other IBM products like Business monitor, looking for options to rebranding the control web console, some of the fields that expecting to rebrand --Web console Title--logo--Login page titl...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 1 Delivered

Certificate CRL check for Sterling Connect:Direct

It's not practical to use SEAS for certificate CRL check for Connect:Direct in a large enterprise environment where there are thousands of Connect:Direct nodes. Query-based CRL check via SEAS could greatly degrade the performance of Secure+ file t...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Delivered

Sterling File Agent support required for AWS S3 buckets

As Enterprise is moving towards AWS cloud, support to watch S3 bucket will be required for business.
about 5 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 6 Delivered

Hiding of unnecessary ROP/ROQ Methods

MRO provides a number of ROP/ROQ Methods that may not be applicable for a given client's environment. These methods are usually included by default in their drop-down list for selection by users. I'd like a method to either hide or remove methods ...
about 1 year ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 2 Delivered