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Installation & Upgrade

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Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for getCanonicalHostName() method in Java

Installer fails to create ASISslCert certificate for some Windows enviroments.Installer calls getCanonicalHostName() method in Java ,and receive IP address instead of the server hostname for some security or settings.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

GPM (Graphical Process Modeler)

The current version of GPM does not function with the current Java SDK levels. The last valid Java JDK is Java 1.8.0_281. This fails to meet current Java versions for vulnerability issues. As a result, many will have to justify the need to run an ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 8 Functionality already exists

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Certified Container - db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached

db-setup pod should have logs volumes attached so the logs can be retained even after the auto deletion of db-setup pod. IBM asks for the logs but because the db-setup pod auto deleted so even the ephemeral logs also get deleted which are very imp...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 3 Functionality already exists

Streamline Global Mailbox Install/Upgrade Process

To upgrade/install Global Mailbox is a large and complex process. My current Global Mailbox production environment encompasses two data centers, each containing the following (4 SFG/GM servers, 6 Cassandra/Zookeeper servers, 2 MQ servers). We are ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 2 Functionality already exists

Cleanup prior version .jar files

The install/upgrade/patch/hotfix process should cleanup the prior version .jar files. We have been running since 2016 and every .jar file from upgrades are in the <install>/packages folders as well as other folders having years worth of back...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Allow upgrade of SFG Clustered environment using SSL connection to DB2

The Db2 Configuration needs to be modified to allow a non-ssl connection to the DB, this is a security violation in our environment. Then we need to make several modifications to customer_overrides.properties, jdbc.properties.in & Sandbox.cfg ...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Planned for future release

OCP cluster/Linux SFG instance : Integrated authentication of MSSQL 2019 database

SFG setup using MSSQL 2019 database, Current our MSSQL supports only integrated authentication, we need to inputs here. 1. Does SFG supports integrated authentication? 2. if yes how to pass the custom parameter in the connection string "integrated...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

remove hard coded SMTP information from standard BP

In current business environments most connections to SMTP servers don't use plain SMTP port 25 any more but use secure ports like 465 or 587. With current hard coded value 25 for SMTP port many of the standard BPs can't send emails even if the cor...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator External Perimeter Server Version details.

Logging the version details of IBM Sterling B2B External Perimeter Server either files like "PSLogger" or "StartupPS.log" or "remote_perimeter.properties" files of IBM external perimeter server. This would be more helpful during below scenario'...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

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