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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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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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FileAgent - Windows .ser file cleartext

Have the Default_Config.ser or other .ser files clear text or similar.
almost 8 years ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Increased character limit of Context Data

Currently, Context Data can only contain 10,281 characters. Some requirements and design require more information to be stored in Context Data. Alternate Solution is to store and retrieve from GenericData Configuration, but it complicates the acti...
about 7 years ago in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager / Usability 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

WTX/ITX Oracle adapter - automatic failover implementation

We are using the WTX/ITX Oracle adapter for our connection with an Oracle Exadata database. In case of database failure, Exadate switch automaticly to the second cluster node. >> Problem : At the switch time, all running maps faile with ...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Adapters 2 Not under consideration

Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

DCB Information is missing in the parameters passed through the Process Data for CDSA Runtask

We have a requirement for additional parameters to be passed to the B2B Integrator CDSA through the Runtask exit to the Runtask Business Process script. Previously, parameters have been added to the data passed from the inbound Connect:Direct sess...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Include ForgeRock Directory LDAP service to IBM officially supported list

We're using ForgeRock Directory service in LDAP and enabled HTTP password policy. But got an issue that the warming message will be changing randomly with multiple login attempted. case has been raised to IBM but they noticed that ForgeRock Direct...
4 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Other 4 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...
about 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 3 Not under consideration

DTXDS APIs for the Launcher

We are currently trying to automate a bit our software lifecycle management and we would like to automate the compilation and deployment of maps on our Linux system. We are using Azure pipeline for this automatization and we would like to have a w...
about 4 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / APIs & SDKs 1 Not under consideration

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