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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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Support for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale

The ever-evolving cloud offerings require constant review of services and cloud cost management options. As our ebMS/AS4 solution using B2B products is a critical business application we need to ensure that we are using appropriate cloud native te...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication

Sterling filegateway does not support Windows Authentication, currently it just supports SQL authtentication, this is causing issues with keeping up to current security standards.
12 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Support individual system RSU upgrade in CDPLEX environment

We are trying to achieve a high availability environment for CD with CDPLEX. Supporting RSU upgrade per system instead of per SYSPLEX will allow us to failover seamlessly if there is an issue with RSU upgrade on one particular LPAR.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 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...
over 2 years 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...
almost 4 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator support for Postgres open source database

We are being asked to move to Postgres open-source database for cost efficiencies and would like IBM Sterling Integrator to support both Postgres open-source database in an AWS cloud environment and on an on-premise deployment of Postgres. The rea...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Uploading of Test Files to be Optional for IBMers

While uploading a map to Config Hub it is mandatory to upload a valid Input file even in CTE, along with the Source and Compiled map.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Mapping & Translation 0 Not under consideration

Logging user activity - to track user's activity while they navigate on dashboard

As a part of business requirement, we need to log activities related to all users in Sterling Integrator. If a user who is not allowed to view a specific BP data, that should be logged, which can be useful for auditing purpose.
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

Create Business view in Config Center for Codelists, Mappings, Connections, Keys/Certficates

This feature will be helpful when there are codelists with same names across different BA's. Same map names such as document extraction maps or typing maps across different BA's. Could be helpful for connections and keys/certificates
10 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Other 4 Not under consideration