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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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Override CURRENTDATETIME value by run parameter

Our team wants to build automatic regression tests for continous integration and simplifying release changes. Also the tests would be repeatable. The outputs in between two runs are different if the output contains an CURRENTDATETIME function. We ...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 2 Not under 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...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

External Purge Memory settings are inconsistent between Windows and Linux/Unix and changing the memory settings is complicated

It is very confusing that Xmx for Ext Purge on Windows defaults to 512m no matter what the Noapp is tuned for. However on linux/Unix the -Xmx for External Purge is pulled from whatever the Noapp is set for. This is very inconsistent and can cause ...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 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
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 8 Functionality already exists

Provide password reset option in Order Hub Next generation

Provide password reset option in Order Hub Next generation. Legacy Order hub used to have IBM id created for the user and based on that we could create or reset password for the respective user from login screen. When Moved to next generation Orde...
2 months ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Multiple Host Key availability for partners.

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 than RSA (ECDSA) while other vendors d...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

We are looking to capture KPI metrics from SFG in terms of max/min file size, cpu/memory usage

We are generating key monthly usage metrics from SFG. Here are some sample metrics.... Max/min file size Max/Min/Avg CPU Max/Avg memory Usage by protocol
9 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Improvements to JMS monitoring screen in SST

I'll attach my suggestion / queries in a docx as it includes some pictures. In summary, since the move to the new JMS monitoring we have some questions and suggestions for how it could be improved, in particualr on the Queue depth graph and the qu...
9 months ago in Self Service Tool 0 Future consideration

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version

Upgrade from Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable and 2015 version being used in ITX11 to latest mainstream version of 2023 and version after that. The two version currently in use are considered end of life by Microsoft.
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 0 Planned for future release