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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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modify the path of the objectstore logs

The main problem is that the logs are stored in the /home of the user executing a transmission that sends files to the cloud (AWS, COS, GC). On Linux servers, if we have an owner user of the ConnectDirect product, we do not have permissions to vie...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

InFlight PPID Business Field Filter Search

The Protocol Started >> Event Details Tab displays the PPID (Protocol Profile ID) for OB transactions in InFlight. It would be extremely useful if PPID was added to the 'Business Field' Search filter drop-down. This would allow Internal Supp...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 4 Planned for future release

Request for improvement of the CONNECT DIRECT manual contents so that incompatibility information items are clearly indicated

Our client plans to upgrade Connect:Direcr for z/OS from V6.1 to V6.4 in 2025 and we need to provide them with information about incompatibilities from V6.4 to V6.1. We checked the manual of IBM Connect:Direct for z/OS 6.4 Documentaion, but there ...
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

Customized views in transaction view

It would be useful to be able to save a set of columns for specific use cases. For example when we are searching for Purchase Orders we might be interested in a specific set of columns and when searching for Invoices we might be interested in a di...
4 months ago in webMethods B2B SaaS 0 Under review

Ability to link a future supply(PO) in IV to a customer order in OMS.

One of our client has a requirement to have the visibility of the purchase orders against which a customer order is scheduled by OMS for the following reasons: -> To expedite the delivery of the PO if it has not reached on expected time resulti...
2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

Call HSM for synchronous backups from Connect Direct

We would like to include in our Connect Direct process a call to HSM to make synchronous backup of important production dataset received or sended to be able to make a fast recover in case of corruption or data lost. We have tried to make calls to...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 3 Future consideration

myFG2.0 deployment on multiple HTTP Server Adapter

myfilegateway1.0 can be hosted on different http server adapters and that helps to split the traffic and achieve high availability but the same is not possible with mfg2.0, updated version of myfg2.0 should have same flexibility as old version of ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Under review

Signature parameter to SEASCustomExitInterface class

Hi Team, To perform actual authentication, the client sends a signature generated using the private key. It is a SSH signature verification. To perform signature verification, customer backend generic solution need the following data in the authen...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Administration & Configuration 4 Planned for future release

JsontoXml out of box service.

Currently JsonToXml service converts a Json data file to respective xml format and stores the xml file in Filesystem under <Install-dir>/bin/output.xml. Parallelly it creates a tag called <output></output> with the xml data insi...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Support current SFTP/SSH host key and public key algorithms.

Sterling currently only supports ssh-rsa algorithm for host and public key. this is limiting sftp transfers with our new SFTP partners. New SFTP servers like Azure SFTP doesnt support ssh-rsa for host key algorithm. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Planned for future release