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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...
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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Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
12 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 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 3 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow ITX to handle Protobuf schemas

ITX currently can support AVRO schemas however there are other schemas that may be used depending on circumstances. One of these is the protobuf schema. Can this be added to the suite of schemas supported by ITX?
about 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Compliance Checking 1 Not under consideration

Add support for HTTPS Content-Type: multipart/form-data

IBM Support states that the below is unsupported by SI: curl -X POST "https://$address/api/files" \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \ -H "Authorization: 550f9407-146a-4542-bdfb-428acbd558f3" \ -F "file=@...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Not under consideration

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub currently and is a good to have feature.

View load details for shipment is not available in Order Hub from Shipment summary screen. With Application Console getting deprecated it appears to be a good to have feature enabled on Order Hub.
about 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard.

Information systems which implement HTML 5 must adhere to the HTML 5 Security Standard. Changes to any other properties for the purpose of preventing cross-site vulnerabilities are not supported. Reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrat...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 3 Not under consideration

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.

All input (user and service) must be validated on the server side to permit only the allowed characters and limited field length necessary for the corresponding function.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the product to charge/settlement based on the authorized amount and authorization id mapping

The following is the issue scenario Line 1 – Authorized (individual auth id) along with shipping charge (Authorized -individual auth id). Shipped and invoiced Line 2 – Authorized with auth id. As part of the settlement, a single charge record is o...
over 1 year ago in OMS - Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Not under consideration

New parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID in CD_SRVR.INI

Currently silent installation for Windows allows to provide CD_ADMIN_USERID in CD_SRVR.INI. The enhancement is to add new parameter CD_ADMIN_GROUPID that would allow to provide Group Name as CD Administrator Group.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Installation & Upgrade 3 Not under 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