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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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Cryptographic function used for TLS certificates storage should use SHA-384 or SHA-512 or POLY-1305

CA Certificates, Key Certificates and Private Keys are stored in key database file cdkeystore.kdb + STH file. In addition software stores the key database password in .keystore file and passphrase to the private key in .password file in C:\Program...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 4 Not under consideration

Automating the regular NDM tasks

We are performing Netmap updates and secure + updates via NDM panels. We need to automate these manual tasks so it will reduce any human error and save time.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Future consideration

C:D UNIX silent update shall honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters

C:D UNIX silent update does not honour cdBackupLocation and agentBackupLocation parameters when updating
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 7 Future consideration

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
8 months ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

ICAP scanning required for files pulled and pushed by Sterling Integrator

Files that are pushed by external vendors are scanned via ICAP protocol in Sterling Secure Proxy. But the files that are pulled by Sterling Integrator are not scanned as they do not pass through SSP. This leaves a big gap in the scanning feature o...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 2 Planned for future release

Provision of adding of extra annotation to Statefulset/Pods using Helm charts Values file

While setting up IBM Sterling Integrator (or SEAS/SSP) in containerized way currently there is no Standard way of adding Extra Annotations to Statefulset/Pods in IBM Sterling Integrator helm charts using Values file Right now to add any extra anno...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Rest API integration using OAuth (HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service)

Currently HTTP Client Adapter and REST API Client Service allow for only basic authentication. Most external SaaS clients require OAuth 2.0 since it provides for better security We are unable to fulfill requests partners requiring REST API communi...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator 1 Planned for future release

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability to zero. We don't have API's to cleanup SIM, IV and node availability for existing stores. It is required in lower environments to cleanup the corrupted data due to testing. So that we can clean...
about 2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Allow process name in a cdp script to be an IFA variable on Windows.

We use Integrated File agent to automate CDP submissions to Connect Direct. And Webservices is used to administer IFA. Since the IFA service is used by multiple business teams we have a CDP process that has a variable for the process name somthing...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 7 Future consideration

Introduce Surplus Transfer Opportunities IN - show Transfers available IN to a plant

When implementing new stock levels, the business has an opportunity to reduce working capital costs by utilising surplus stock from another plant to fulfil requirements. By introducing a field Surplus Transfer Opportunities IN and allowing it to b...
about 2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration