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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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Download/upload files via using https link?

We have many non-technical vendors, and we need the functionality to provide them with the link to upload/download files.
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 4 Needs more information

Support for SHA-3 cryptographic algorithms

to support the below emerging cryptographic algorithmsSHA-3, including ALL variants listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik: i/SHA-3#Instances
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Future consideration

Management of OFTP2 Certificates = Time Consuming with SBI

On SBI, OFTP2 management is time consomming.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Future consideration

Myfilegateway 2.0 - Web UI customisation lack

Hello IBM team, we noticed a lack regarding the possibilities to customise the Web User Interface of myfilegateway 2.0. As myfilegateway 2.0 is a web client interface customer-orientated, it would be a good progress to suggest more configurati...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Export all the results in one csv file, even if results are in multiple pages - IBM SQL DB Query Client

One request for enhancing the db query client. Even if results show up in pagination. Can you enable a feature where I can export all the results in one csv file. Like for e.g. if query results in more than 10K records, need a feature to export al...
about 1 year ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Allow PROPGATE.DSNTYPE=YES to work while PROPAGATE.SMSCLASS=(COND or YES,NO,NO) for PDSEs

Why is it useful? It will respect the source dataset’s DSNTYPE and allocate the dataset with the correct DSNTYPE. Who would benefit from it? Any z/OS platform that has ACS routines that do not override a user’s requested DSNTYPE. How should it wor...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Connect:Direct RESTAPI at the CD nodes (including Z) support

We would like be able to use RESTAPI services to access Connect:Direct at the z/OS node level (not via CDWS) in order to handle job abends with NDM status
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists

Reject clearly the SSH key when unencrypted

When checking-in a new SSH user identity key, if the key is not encrypted, then SBI accepts it anyway but the key is unusable (check-out failure). If SBI requires the key to be encrypted then it should mention it clearly and it should not allow th...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Future 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...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Fix "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system" Error when launching Graphical Process Modeler

When launching GPM it produces and error message "Unsigned application requesting unrestricted access to system". There is a workaround currently but this request is to have a permanent fix included in a future version of Sterling Integrator. The ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration