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File replay on surviving data center using metadata from cassandra if the processing data center goes down

Currently , if the file is uploaded to the datacenter (DC) and that DC goes down, there is no way to replay that file until the DC comes up. This causes adverse impact on customer's business. Having this will help the production support to replay ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Utility to keep Cassandra tables in sync

There are times when Cassandra nodes may get out of sync and some of the nodes may deem it appropriate to bring back records that should no longer belong in the tables. For example: mailbox.messages, mailbox.messages_by_name and mailbox.messages_b...
22 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

user defined replication criteria of files in a global mailbox

Customer wants to use global mailbox but wants to decide for each partner as to allow replication or not. And this decision for a partner depends on multiple factors like filesize, filename, duration etc. So a partner's global mailbox could allow ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Not under consideration

Configuring Mailbox User Interface through HTTP protocol for Global Mailbox

We recently installed Global Mailbox on existing Sterling Integrator and currently working on migrating partners from traditional SI mailboxes to Global Mailboxes. We use SFTP, NDM (connect direct) and HTTPs protocols for file transmission. For SF...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 2 Not under consideration

Ability to route files from alternate datacentre in Global Mailbox

We currently receive files internally from multiple sources into Global Mailbox which is load balanced across the two datacentres. We have had situation whereby a file has come into DC1 and we have needed to redeliver the file in DC2 due to issues...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

Add support for AES-256 encryption algorithm for data at rest in Global Mailobx

B2Bi already supports AES-256 encryption for data at rest, so global mailbox should offer the same level of encryption.
almost 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Future consideration

GM architecture deployed in zLinux

GM architecture increases the reliability of the suite but it's running only in midrange servers. Running Linux MZ (SSP not make sense) components (SBI/SEAS/KAS/ZK/MQ) on IBM zSeries or LinuxOne will bring a highest level of reliability, security ...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Submitted

File Extraction Notification

Within the global mailbox administrator, we can see in the extraction criteria tab of mailbox explorer the date/time that a file is extracted either by file delivery from SFG/GM or by the client pulling the file from the mailbox. Our issue is that...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 3 Needs more information

B2Bi Sterling Integrator generating invalid delivery status in the application UI following deadlock

In April 2024 an external client submitted a payment file into the B2Bi Sterling Integrator product within my production environment. The file routed and delivered successfully to the remote target system, and the payment file processed through th...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 1 Needs more information

Global Mailbox's Cassandra and ZooKeeper's SLES support

Having the ability to install CAS and ZK on SLES, avoiding mixed environments on existing installations (SLES for B2Bi and RHEL for CAS/ZK)
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Global Mailbox 0 Future consideration