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Certify NetApp S3 Object Storage with Connect:Direct

Usage of Non-AWS S3 based object storage is increasing with NetApp NAS filers being amongst the leaders in this space.

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) 7 Planned for future release

Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
29 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Simplify the JDBC Driver Update Procedure

During a recent database migration, it was necessary to update the JDBC driver used by Sterling Integrator. The procedure to do this is well-documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-update-jdbc-driver-ibm-sterling-b2b-integrator-vers...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

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

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

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
23 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

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.
6 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 2 Future consideration

Our goal is to have the same number of retries applied to the backup configuration as to the main one.

We are currently using an IBM fix that enables Connect:Express to use a backup IP address for outgoing transfers when a transfer fails using the main IP address defined in the partner directory (TCP/IP error level). The issue we’re facing is that,...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Express / Other 0 Submitted