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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.
7 days ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Under review

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

EDIFACT Control Number override parameters are not unique

Hello Team, In our current implementation, we are attempting to override the EDIFACT control numbers present in both the UNB and UNH segments. However, through investigation with the PMR, we discovered that the Override parameters are being reused...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

ITXA should require user passwords be changed at least yearly. Preferably every 90 days.

End user passwords are not forced to be reset. According to best practice security standards they shoudl be changed every 90 days or yearly. ITXA has no forced password change functionality. There shoudl be foreced password change based on time. F...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 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

Automated Validation for Corrupted Maps During Export/Import and Deployment

Currently, there is no automated check available in IBM Sterling Integrator / ITX to detect if an ITX map gets corrupted during export or import. In many cases, a corrupted map gets deployed into higher environments without any warning, which late...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Under review

Enhancement for ZIP adapter

a option to list the files present in the zip file. Using ITX map we are able to compress and decompress a zip file. But the problem is we are unsure what files will be received in the zip file. If we are able to do it via a command in zip adapter...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 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

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