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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 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 5 Future consideration

Sterling to support Active Directory or Entra (security) group

Active Directory Security group help our organization to 1. process MACD especially Add and Remove members 2. managerial attestation (employees are removed from accessing Sterling as soon as he/she leaves the company. In our case, we have many int...

Provide Application Security Logging

Based on case TS020418213 and meeting with Rishabh Jindal it became clear that currently Connect Direct for windows is not able to provide application security logging based on the requirements of ABN AMRO internal policies and standards. We would...
1 day ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

Need to have a way to switch EBICS User Roles

We have a current situation where our client has asked us to switch the roles of two EBICS user accounts—from technical to non-technical and vice versa. I'm asking for a way to configure a current EBICS user without having to delete the user accou...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted

Accessing Queue Watcher dashboard for each ASI Pod

Currently for Container based deployment of Sterling integrator we are not seeing any provision to access QueueWacther page for each individual ASI POD. If we have multiple ASI Pods and If we access queueWatcher page then it opens up from any of A...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Future consideration

Improve SPOE update process in containers so that a helm install is not required

Currently, when making an update to the SPOE file, the process requires the file to be pulled in via a helm install. In an enterprise environment, there tend to be limitations on what can be done during business hours as part of normal configurati...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Functionality already exists

Support service mesh for container deployments

Enterprise customers looking to deploy containers under kubernetes, especially in OpenShift, specify that service mesh must be used, in this case Red Hat's Service Mesh based on istio

Connect:Direct limitation retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories.

Connect:Direct has a known limitation when retrieving files from Amazon S3 subdirectories. If you attempt to retrieve ( GET ) a file located in a specific subfolder within a bucket (e.g., /folder1/file), and the user does not have permission to ac...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 2 Future consideration

Enhance QueueWatcher extraction workflow id and bp names and how many milliseconds it ran to Kafka EventStreams

Request to enhance the QueueWatcher extraction functionality to capture and publish additional metadata—specifically Workflow ID, Business Process names, and execution time in milliseconds—to Kafka EventStreams for improved observability and analy...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 3 Not under consideration

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration