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AS2 support for CEM message format

As Sectigo and other Certificate Authority (CA) providers increasingly implement frequent certificate upgrades to strengthen security, the need for automated certificate management solutions becomes more critical. A proven approach, already adopte...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Cleanly handle EBICS Requests with no post data or methods other than POST

Customers regularly receive requests to the EBICS URL which have no post data. This causes the EBICS handler BP to throw a NULL document error creating noise in the logs and meaning the BP fails. Sometimes this is just an error but often the EBICS...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

AS2 Partner profile userid and password length

Currently B2Bi only supports 56 character long password in trading partner AS2 profile for basic authentication. However, some of the customers using SAP BTP providing 80 character userID and password for AS2 configuration and B2Bi is not able to ...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Add support for EDIFACT Syntax Version 'X' in UNB envelope

It appears that the latest EDIFACT standards ("VDA-EDIFACT" for automotive) allow for an 'X' to be used as the syntax version in the UNB envelope. Unfortunately, doing so fails both enveloping and de-enveloping in SB2Bi (as confirmed by IBM PMR TS...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 Submitted

Provide AuthorisationLevel and AccountInfo for all upload orders in EBICS HTD response

The EBICS standard specifies that AuthorisationLevel should be provided for all non-administrative upload orders, not just FUL, and should specify AccountId as well as MaxAmount where the user is a signatory for the order type(s). AccountInfo also...
4 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted

Support SWIFT Alliance Cloud

Customers using B2Bi to provide connectivity to SWIFT are considering options to adopt containers and even public cloud. SWIFT now offer a cloud offering (https://www.swift.com/products/alliance-cloud) which would enable a wholesale move to public...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

Export files in UTF8 format

Gentran exports inbound files in ASCI format. If Netweaver option is select to send the idocs to SAP, the idoc file format has to be in UTF8, this is what IBM suggested. Please add an option in Gentran where files export has an option to select AS...

Gentran notifications

I set up our Gentran Server to send email notifications when translator errors take place. Is there a way to add the ability to set it up in a way that would send these messages only for certain types of EDI transactions (only for 850s and 810s, a...

Sterling Gentran Director Version 5.5 to be supported on Windows 11

Windows 10 end of life is coming in Sept 2025

Prepare to support EBICS v4.0

EBICS is a banking standard used by banks and corporations in Europe for payments, cash and treasury management etc. The EBICS organisation is looking to build on the harmonisation introduced in EBICS v3, introduced in 2018, focusing on: EBICS V 4...
about 1 year ago in Sterling File Gateway / Standards 0 Submitted