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Align Retention of Filter/Search Criteria Functionality Across Code List/Mapping/Transformations/Connections for Consistent Behavior

Currently when using the Search Bar in Code List/Mapping/Transformations, the functionality is inconsistent across all three. Search in Mapping (partial or full name search) then click into any of the maps that come up to review it.  To go ba...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other Under review

Adapt SSP to the removal of "clientAuth EKU" from Public TLS certificat

By February 2027, public certificate authorities (CAs) will stop supporting TLS client authentication due to Chrome’s new root program rules. This will break connections to SSP servers for our customers which have enabled "Require Client Authentic...
8 days ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security Submitted

Sterling OMC | Provide a user role in SST that allows the holder to access the Sterling monitoring only

Provide a user role that provides a read only access to SST. This could be provided to teams that support systems that interact with Sterling. They could use to provide check status in Sterling (Queue depths, application server response time) when...
8 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) Planned for future release

CDWS in Containers - additional options accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to have more control before the deployment. We need to have the following parameters delivered upfront from values.yaml to setup in OpenShift environment, what would speed up the deployment a...
22 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Future consideration

CDWS in Containers - disable GUI access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable GUI access (and leave the RESTful API access only) before the deployment. Currently there is no such an option. We need to have this parameter delivered upfront from values.yaml to...
22 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Functionality already exists

CDWS in Containers - disable admin access option accessible before the deployment

Connect Direct Web Services for containers should allow to disable the admin access before the deployment. Currently CDWS requires to start the deployment, then setup admin password and restart the deployment. Having this parameter delivered upfro...
22 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade Planned for future release

Enable End to End Correlation ID Propagation for User Request Tracing for IBM B2Bi MyFileGateway users.

Our File Transfer Service provides capability to external bank users to upload download files through IBM MyFileGateway SSO through a multi‑hop authentication and file‑transfer flow involving identity, SSP proxy, perimeter, and B2Bi MyFileGateway ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) Under review

Granular error messages from type 5

We are currently processing 837 files using the hipaa_data_compliance map and performing validations for types 1–5 and 7. We'd like to explore the possibility of enhancing the Type 5 validation to return more granular error messages. Specifically,...
23 days ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Compliance Submitted

Write files in temporary datasets on a bucket

In some cases, files must not arrive on the destination system with their correct filenames, as this would immediately trigger processing. We therefore need a temporary filename that can be renamed once the transfer is complete. However, to do thi...
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Needs more information

Fileagent get cloud notifications

It would be desirable for Connect Direct to be able to respond directly to notifications sent by a bucket. Is it possible for Fileagent to read these notifications?
16 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability Future consideration

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