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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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MyFileGateway LDAP Support

Currently we have multiple MyFileGateway users that we create, delete and update on a regular basis when new customers join the organisation. The accounts that access MyFileGateway are manually created and there is a large operational overhead on ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Allow map tests from Design Studio to run against SPE Server

This idea would allow users to run a map test from their locally installed copy of Design Studio on ITXA installed on a server, the same way that we can currently run IBM Mapper tests against Sterling Integrator, and run Design Studio map tests ag...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

ITX - Support for http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace

When trying to import XSD files that import the namespace http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace, we see errors in Design Studio that the schema is not valid. Support should be added for this namespace, which is still valid and still used in many XS...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Not under consideration

To display RuleID in Inflight Event Details

As of now, the RULE ID is displayed in Inflight event details only if the rule was set to 'Finish' action. To search for earlier files and determine which rules have been applied, we will need to access a different portal (BPN Tool). In this porta...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Not under consideration

Restrict user permission (Read/Write/Download etc) in SFG MyFiles for Sterling File Partners

This would help ensure clients have proper user permissions (Read, Write, Download etc) in SFG MyFile 2.0. This gives a level of security on that account if that account should only download files or read files.
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

Security Exit must be usable by different SFTs and the STCname should be part of the RACF profile namess

In our environment we run several Connect:Direct stc's in one environment. The provided Security Exits do not offer a possibility to setup separate profiles for these stc's.We would like this to be changed. Second what we ask for is to add the STC...
over 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

OpenTelemetry (or ELK) integration for Connect:Direct statistics

Utilizing an infrastructure like Splunk and ELK, one can trivially create dashboards, event monitoring, web hooks etc. These help to understand and analyze the changing requirements, i.e. provide convincing information about your additional licens...
11 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

Include native Multi-Factor Authentication against a variety of commercial MFA vendors

There are growing needs for integration with Single Sign-On and Multi-Factor Authentication. IBM File Gateway as well as IBM Sterling Secure Proxy need to be updated to natively support direct communication with a variety of SSO/MFA solutions with...
almost 3 years ago in Sterling File Gateway / Security 2 Not under consideration

FTPS/SFTP list command to show folder timestamp

Currently only files show the last modified timestamps while folders show current timestamp of the list request. Proper behavior would be to also show folder last modified timestamp which is already available in the SI data model.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Not under consideration

Use temporary filename during file transfert on Unix and Windows

We use Connect Direct to transfert files between several systems to Open system and use IWA (IBM Workload Automation) with file watcher on target system to start automaticlly scripts when a file arrive. It work fine with small files but sometime w...
4 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 3 Not under consideration