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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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Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability

Functionality to clean SIM, IV and Node availability to zero. We don't have API's to cleanup SIM, IV and node availability for existing stores. It is required in lower environments to cleanup the corrupted data due to testing. So that we can clean...
7 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Ability to mass download maps, codelists, envelopes, comm setups and routing rules for periodic backup

The customer wants the ability to download their assets—maps, envelopes, codelists, communication setups, and routing rules—from our SaaS platform via APIs. This will allow them to maintain a local backup of latest copies of these assets.
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Communication Protocols / Mapping & Translation 1 Future consideration

Support Multiple CA certificates in HTTP client adapters

We have partners that are starting to deploy systems in multiple geographic zones in an active/active configuration. Each zone is presenting its own SSL certificate. For smooth processing, it would be ideal if a list of certificates could be provi...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Future consideration

Introduce Surplus Transfer Opportunities IN - show Transfers available IN to a plant

When implementing new stock levels, the business has an opportunity to reduce working capital costs by utilising surplus stock from another plant to fulfil requirements. By introducing a field Surplus Transfer Opportunities IN and allowing it to b...
7 months ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Not under consideration

Canned S3 Adapter - support for the other providers like IBM cos, Pure storage etc.

Hi Chandra, After extensive testing and research, I have found that the AWS S3 adapter is currently only suited to working with virtual-host-style endpoint URLs. I'm noticing that the typical use case for the AWS S3 client adapter seems to be for ...
7 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Not under consideration

User Permission in Registry manipulierbar

Hallo, bei einem ConnectDirect Penetration-Test ist folgendes kritisiert worden: Die Berechtigungen, welche in Connect:Direct unter Functional Authorities vergeben wurden, waren in der Registry in Klartext gespeichert. Beispielsweise ist hier zu s...
7 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file

Include ability to specify CD properties overrides in customer_overrides.properties file From https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS3JSW_6.0.3/administering/administering/integrator/SI_PrpFile_Overriding_Props_Using_cust_overrides.html The...
over 5 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Planned for future release

Add AD Authentication option for Database Connections

Add support for AD authentication between SI and its database. This would allow the username/password to be managed outside of the application properties files and more easily align with company policies regarding password complexity and who has a...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 2 Future consideration

Allow Sterling Integrator to support STARTTLS SMTP when connecting to MS Office 365

I am geting the following error java.rmi.ServerException: RemoteException occurred in server thread; nested exception is:java.rmi.RemoteException: B2BMailSMTPImpl, mail cannot be sent because of an exception received from the server; nested except...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic removal of redundant checkpoint entries

Can the logic behind CKPT.DAYS be extended so that this function in invoked on a regular basis (e.g. daily) instead of only when z/OS Connect:Direct is started? When the checkpoint dataset becomes full, the only way to defragment it or clear out r...
over 1 year ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 2 Future consideration