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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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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...
about 6 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

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...
about 6 hours ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Security 0 Submitted

IBM License Service for containerized B2b +additional Sterling Data Exchange Products

Chief Architect suggested that I open this with B2B, as B2B owns the helm deployment and container. When integrated, ITX, ITXA and B2BI all run in the same container and that container only reports B2BI VPC to the Licensing service. This makes cli...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

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
12 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 0 Submitted

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

new version CD to microfocus

Regarding to particular case, we have detected that EBCDIC Microfocus Gravity (JLC emulation) conversions with UNIX origin to Snode UNIX do not support line break translations. The EBCDIC to ISO8859-1 codepage works, but any additional parameters ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Add feature on SharePoint Client Adapter to use display name of the document library.

On Sterling B2B Integrator, SharePoint Client Adapter has limitation that display and internal should be same on document library but in real world we have scenario that display and internal name is different and due to this, Sterling is unable to...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Submitted

S3 support for Linux on Power.

I would like to kindly request that S3 support be extended to IBM Sterling Connect:Direct versions running on Power systems. Many of our clients use Power platforms and are in need of this feature to meet their integration requirements.
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

File System Adapter (FSA) Timeout

Customer has BPs that writes and/or reads files to/from a NFS server. Once there was a problem of slowness in their NFS server where the NFS response was very slow. There are thousand of workflows running at that time SFG collapsed after a certain...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Future consideration

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