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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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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...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow System Certificates to work the same as CA Certificate groups

Currently when we generate a new System Certificate and want to install it to our HTTP Server Adapters, we need to take our environment down and schedule/coordinate the change of the certificates with all our AS2 customers. Not an easy task given ...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 8 Future consideration

For Type records panel to add confirmation prompt to confirm saving or record should not get added with PF3

Currently, there is delimitation while we go to admin panel for adding new type record in NDM admin-> IT panel , if we bychance hit PF3 it creates an incomplete record. And to remediate this everytime either we have to update the wrongly create...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Java LTS - SI/B2BI needs a defined roadmap plan for Java Long Term Support adoption (e.g. Java 11 & Java 17)

A path and solid timeline for upgraded Java Long Term Support version adoption needs to be defined for the entire suite of IBM Sterling products. Information Risk Management teams and groups are requiring all applications to migrate and leverage u...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator External Perimeter Server Version details.

Logging the version details of IBM Sterling B2B External Perimeter Server either files like "PSLogger" or "StartupPS.log" or "remote_perimeter.properties" files of IBM external perimeter server. This would be more helpful during below scenario'...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin

CDW - Reduce windows user permission on Transfer ID/Proxy ID instead of granting local admin Currently must required the ID to be part of the administrators group. If the TransferID/Proxy ID (AD user) can be a normal user, that would be great beca...
2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Mass approval of workflows

Hi team, Please note we are facing issues while approving bulk workflows as the selection and processing at a time are limited to 100 lines only. During mass reviews we are initiating multiple hundreds of WFs against which the approvers (especiall...
2 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 3 Future consideration

Unified Management of Connect Direct & Integrated File Agent

The current process to start/stop Connect Direct (CD) Integrated File Agent (IFA) requires a user to manually edit the init.parm settings each time they start/stop CD. The user has to manually edit the "cdfa.enable" parameter to "y" or "n" to sign...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Provide alternative to GZip when downloading upgrade job logs through CCD

Many large corporations lock down employee workstations meaning new software cannot be installed and Gzip is not included it makes it very hard to view the upgrade logs without gaining access to the C:D node which somewhat defeats the object of us...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Under review

Show date max sessions reached and allow reset

Provide mechanisms to show the date that the high watermark session count for a node was last reached under License Management or to reset the high watermark to be calculated from a set date when displaying it in License Management.
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Director 1 Under review