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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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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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    Actions after a file is copied to a Azure Blob

    As soon as the file is copied to connect direct and is persisted in a BLOB Object Store in Azure, customer needs to move/copy this file to another path/blob and/or delete this file directly from the cdp as a sysopt or some kind of task, but not us...
    8 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Submitted

    Databricks connector for SB2Bi

    Today, Databricks is a major player in the data industry. The strategic directions of the Group have led to the construction of an Azure Data Lake, and the data management solution implemented to ingest, process, and expose data in this DL is Data...
    4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

    Master Data Governance functionality

    this feature was advertised for Q1/Q2 2025 but has not been delivered and no information about the delay exists anywhere, is this coming soon?
    about 11 hours ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

    Automating Work Queue

    In certain circumstances there would be an efficiency if a Work Queue could be automated, either completely or under certain conditions (Ex. If a material in the Min Max increase/decrease, if it matches a Business Impact selected, or for certain v...
    about 11 hours ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 0 Submitted

    Provide Bundle Support across the board for SIP during pre and post fulfillment

    Currently, IV supports bundles by providing inventory availability based on the bundle components configured for the bundle item. However, other SIP functionalities like Optimizer and EDD do not support this. These feature gaps must be resolved to...
    about 11 hours ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

    Ability to select TLS 1.2 and TLS1.3 both for a node.

    Currently Sterling Secure Proxy has the ability to support mixed mode of TLS 1.1,TLS 1.2. We have some partners who need to move to TLS 1.3 where as other continue to use TLS 1.2. Hence need the ability to select mixed mode of TLS 1.2,TLS1.3 .
    1 day ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

    SSL Certificates Management (CA, Trusted, System)

    Certificate management in SB2Bi requires a lot of handling because nothing is managed dynamically. To establish an HTTPS connection, it is necessary to specify the SSL server certificate (CA Certificate) to be used for negotiating the transaction....
    4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

    Use a custom filename for the zip file when using the getMultipleDocumentGet REST API

    The sfgapis getMultipleDocumentGet is to bundle one or more documents from B2B into a zip file and receive this zip as response. http://<Install_Host>:<Liberty_port>/sfgapis/ Using the getMultipleDocumentGet sfgapi there's no option to...
    28 days ago in Sterling File Gateway / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

    Connect:Direct for Zos Suports Object Storage

    Connect:Direct for Zos does not support send/receiving files from/to Object Storages. Customers are urging that functionality for AWS and Azure.
    about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct for Z/OS 4 Needs more information

    Support IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS run on IBM i 7.6

    In April 2025, IBM released version 7.6 of IBM i, the successor to IBM i 7.5.However, we have been informed by the Offering Manager that, at this time, there are no plans to support IBM i 7.6 for IBM Sterling Connect:Direct for i5/OS, which has hi...
    about 2 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 7 Planned for future release

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