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Administration & Configuration

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Virtual root search with MAILBOX

SI admin UI provides search of Virtual root if you know the user id. There are instances where we dont know the user id tied to a virtual root but we know the mailbox path. It would tremendously help if there is a search option with a mailbox path...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Make the selected font color configurable in the skins.properties_style_ext file for B2Bi properties.

The selected font color now is yellow and can't be changed. If you color code your environments the standard green, yellow and red. The yellow font color is now hard to see your environments. Let us decide what the selected font color should be.
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Favorites Administration Menu

There are dozens of items on the Administration Menu, and I only use a fraction of them. Please allow users to mark, manage, and organize which pages of the Administration Menu they would like to be bookmarked. This list of favorite bookmarks can ...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Single Sign On with Okta identity provider

currently Single Sign On with Netegrity SiteMinder is only supported. Requesting IBM to include Okta as Single Sign On provider with IBM Sterling B2B Integrator along with documentation.
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

UI Updates to show where object is used

There are many objects in the system that have interdependencies. It would be very useful to have the ability to see where an object is in use. Examples: SSH Profile - show SFG partners that reference the profileHost Key - show SSH Profiles that u...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

SSO SAML assertion and OIDC support and MFA implementation

SAML assertion and OIDC protocols implemented in IBM B2Bi so we can switch from use of LDAP to SSO setup for user authentication. Also we need to implement MFA for user authentication since the application is approved for use with restricted file ...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Allow configuration of SMTP alert parameters for Event Framework

Currently alert emails sent via Event Framework are send with fixed SMTP port 25. Since more and more companies have special requirements for SMTP mail traffic it would be great if the SMTP parameters like port, authentication etc. could be config...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration

Access to multiple mailboxes from one MFG user

The ability to log onto MFG as a user and to be able to navigate to other user's mailboxes, security permitting. This would enable third parties to send files using MFG to their mailboxes and a number of other users to use MFG to see and download ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

Removing specific Operator functions within Sterling Integrator

This proposed functionality is useful because it provides security from a SOX perspective for those that are and aren't members of your company and/or organization, who will benefit from this change.
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Future consideration

Fix some bin scripts bang line

When automating bin/runAll.sh script, it failed to find bang line on first line of script. This is on a new install of b2bi 6.1.0.2 Running cmd below on b2bi bin dir: head -n1 *.sh > /tmp/bin_head1_list.txt Shows that these 6 scripts have somet...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Future consideration