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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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Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Add Password Expiration to the Password Policy for Control Center

We need to be able to set a password expiration for Control Center users. It needs to be flexible so that certain users/roles can be set to never expire.
about 1 month ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Add SASL/JAAS support to Kafka EDI Visibility

Enabling SASL/JAAS support for Kafka EDI Visibility is critical for integrating with secure enterprise environments that enforce authentication and encryption standards. Many organizations use SASL/JAAS to comply with internal security policies an...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 0 Submitted

Password Vault support for outgoing Connect Direct for Windows transfers

There is a need to execute Connect Direct transfers securely as a User/Functional ID managed through Password Vault.
over 2 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 9 Future consideration

Support different version of OS in cluster

As customer is planning to increase the number of nodes (e.g 50) in Sterling B2B Integrator, different OS will be adopted in near future. They request that Sterling B2B Integrator should support different version of OS in cluster.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Enhance the supplyChange.v2 event schema to allow propagation of custom attributes included in the original IV request.

Problem Statement:We are using the supplyChange.v2 event to publish IV resonance data to a configured webhook endpoint. As part of our implementation, we are including several custom attributes (e.g., SourceSystemID, AdjustmentReasonCodeID, etc.) ...
about 2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Please include both userIDs in the SMF 132 record for SU - Select User events for the CDz authorization file.

The CDz SMF 132 record records a wealth of data. Batch JCL for CDz execution allows the command "SEL USER WHERE (USERID=(*)) EXCLUDE = (AUTH)" to list users in the CDz authorization file. You (IBM CDz development support) display both userIDs in t...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Container Deployments - Use one common prerequisite script

Having one script, that has the same name in each upgrade, that does all the prerequisite work will help cut back on deployment problems. This is especially important with SSP container upgrades. In the FixList.txt there are two scripts to delete ...
6 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Ability for customers to set up their own network reports

An added functionality in Document Tracking that allows customers to set up Network reports such as the 030 report (error report) 070 Report (Daily Processing Report) 020 Report (Transmission Report). The benefit of allowing customers to set these...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Document Tracking 3 Future consideration