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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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Enhancement request for SIP support on AWS Keyspaces

We are requesting an enhancement to enable support for Sterling Integration Platform (SIP) on AWS Keyspaces. Currently, SIP is not certified to run on AWS Keyspaces, which limits deployment flexibility for cloud-native architectures. SIP is certif...
9 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Adding SSCTL commands for rolling restart and restarting all agent/integration servers

Currently we do not have any commands for Rolling Restart process and agent start/stop processes in SST CLI. Current SSCTL commands are available for Uploading, listing, deploying, upgrading, downloading customizations processes along with CDT rel...
6 months ago in Self Service Tool 1 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 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Provide native SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) integration connector for IBM Transformation Extender Advanced (ITXA)

Our security group is standardising on SailPoint IdentityIQ Lifecycle Manager (IIQ LCM) for access requests and approvals. SailPoint already ships certified connectors for several IBM platforms (AIX, IBM i, IBM Security Access Manager, etc.) but n...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review

Allow ICC to authenticate users via group membership (eg. using SEAS)

Typical enterprises do not define individual user accounts and groups to every application, as is currently required for ICC.Instead, user accounts and groups within an LDAP directory (such as Active Directory) are used and the applications recogn...
almost 7 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 1 Planned for future release

Document Object Storage for Connect Direct Adapter

as documented on https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.1?topic=container-document-service there is object storage available for most of the adapters but not C:D. this is the main roadblock from stopping us from adopting Object storage for...

Remove old STATARCH logs

Hello, We've detected that the STATARCH ConnectDirect logs are never deleted; only the work logs are compromised, converting them to STATARCH.gz. Over time, the STATARCH files accumulate and fill the filesystem, and we need to delete them manually...
9 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Confirm Shipment accounting for PO ordering unit of measure

Idea Summary: Currently, Confirm Shipment is failing when the ASN is sent by the supplier in the PO ordering UOM and the API is not doing the conversion from the item ordering unit of measure to the item inventory unit of measure. The idea is to h...
about 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 2 Future consideration

Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka.

Sterling Out of box integration with Kafka Case number TS002842262 Description WSI is moving to Kafka for all the asyn messaging process from current JMS(Tibco EMS). We are looking at Sterling Out of box agents to read messages from Kafka. A...
over 6 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 18 Planned for future release