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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...
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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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REST API Server Adapter

Allow Trading Partners to exchange file using REST APIs. If we can have REST adapter similar to SFTP adapter, Partners can use REST APIs to post/get/list etc files to their mailbox. Current REST APIs in B2Bi for administration, management and onbo...
almost 6 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 5 Future consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration

Native PGP certificate expiry notification

Native PGP feature in latest Sterling 6.1xx do not have any email notifications for the pgp expired certificates based on pgp keystores. Using this new PGP feature,we are trying to completely depend on B2Bi for same and the certificate expiration ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 0 Future consideration

Password Vault support for CD web Services

This is to add to CD Web Services integration with Password Vault to avoid storing passwords inside the application. That should include "admin" user as well. Currently CD Web Services allows for cert-based authentication (for API) or user/passwor...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / APIs & SDKs 2 Not under consideration

AS4 flow resiliency updates

Enhancements: Alerting mechanism to identify if the messages stuck in Kafka queue. Increase the number of retries to other Network if there are any network failure's causing the messages stuck in Kafka queue.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols 1 Not under consideration

Control centre to be RAC aware (TAF and TAC)

IBM control center needs to have rac aware features like TAC, TAF to enable database maintainence without causing an outage to the app. This will enable handoff patching / automated rolling patching for databases.
about 3 years ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Future consideration

CDWindows Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Official CDWindows product support for the Microsoft Windows 2025 OS , for future/standard lifecycle management purposes and continued OS supportability.
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Future consideration

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files

Issues with Sterling VAN with AS2 connection, not able to transmit VDA files to Daimler customer via T system because there is an issue with T-system due to missing header information. This has been showstopper for our VAN migration project and le...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS 1 Under review

Provide option in configuration to set to OOB where OOB recommendations are greater than standard configured Service Level configurations.

This would provide greater availability while saving on purchasing costs, etc.
10 months ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Role based access to unprovision of codelist facility

functionality where unprovision button is only available to first/primary sponsor admin.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Administration & Configuration 1 Planned for future release

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