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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...
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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Mask or Don't Include Passwords In Connect Direct Process Scripts that have been built in Connect Direct Web Services or Connect Direct Browser UI

Currently when a user builds a process in CDWS or CD Browser UI, the password is in plain text if a pnode/snode ID is used with password. This is a security vulnerability and should be addressed. We realize that there is no way to stop a user from...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 1 Planned for future release

Call HSM for synchronous backups from Connect Direct

We would like to include in our Connect Direct process a call to HSM to make synchronous backup of important production dataset received or sended to be able to make a fast recover in case of corruption or data lost. We have tried to make calls to...
8 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Fix the duplicate messaging issue for mailbox ftp/sftp server adapters

IBM says in their documentation that duplicate messages are allowed by default and is controlled by a parameter in the mailbox.properties file (disallowDuplicateMessages= false). This is inaccurate, We are seeing errors where duplicate filenames a...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancement of Sharepoint Adapter in IBM Sterling Integrator

After the troubleshooting session with IBM L2 support and our M365 engineer, we have established that IBM Sterling is ONLY able to connect to sharepoint when the site is setup with "/sites" but we would like IBM Sterling to be able to connect to S...

Make Open Telemetry available in CCM

Please make Open telemetry available in CCM. CCM should be able to monitor 1) Queue depth from MQ perspective 2) Loss of connectivity between B2Bi and MQ server. Refer to Idea CCM1-I-382 This was the issue we had in production MQ serve...
4 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Other 0 Submitted

Urgent Support Request – SharePoint Adopter Configuration

Hi Team, I have successfully set up the connection to SharePoint using the IBM-provided SharePoint adopter, and it is functioning as expected—a highly effective solution. However, the current configuration requires passing the site name with...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

To provide provision to set up Granular level access

Hello Team, Currently we only have Object level acces at Sterling Integrator, but we would like to implement stricter control over Bank and Finance ones, so could Granular level access be set up along with Object level access for Maps , BP's and t...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Support to create JSON null and binary type fields

Though the ITX maps are able to read and parse JSON null and binary data, it is unable to generate null or binary type fields using JSON schema. We would like to have the option added in ITX so as to create null and binary type fields like below u...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 3 Planned for future release