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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...
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 2 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 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 0 Submitted

Support for AS4 compatible with Peppol Network

Currently, there is no option in IBM B2B Sterling for AS4 to use directly without installing additional software, like IBM Advanced Communications, and in this case looks like the AS4 protocol used it's not by the standards of the Peppol network. ...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Future consideration

Audit Trail for in app changes

We are looking for a way to be able to log anytime any changes are made ANYWHERE in SEAS with an entry showing what the previous setting was vs the new setting and who made the change. Currently no matter what amout of debug logging is turned on t...
about 2 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 2 Planned for future release

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted

SSH key based authentication using LDAP

SSH Key based authentication with LDAP is not supported in B2BI, and also with SEAS integration. Even though SEAS has SSH Key support with LDAP, SEAS integration APIs with B2BI does not have support for sending SSH Key. During a sftp authenticati...
about 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Future consideration

Configuring the SEAS to only respond with (UserID & Destination Indicator) in response to SSP and forward the Authentication request (Password/SSH Key) aganist/to Sterling integrator local store?

The process/flow will follow the below steps from (User to SSP to SEAS to SI) Step 1 - User Authentication request comes from SSP layer to SEAS; Step 2 - SEAS validates the user against connected AD and return only "UserID/Username && Dest...
almost 5 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Administration & Configuration 1 Future consideration

SI's bpml should support XPath 3.1

When writing Xpath in bp's, the xpath supported is XPath 1.0, which was published in 1999. XPath is currently up to version 3.1.
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 3 Future consideration

Support First Time Password change between SSP/SEAS and B2Bi managed user accounts and subsequent password change should be allowed via SSP password portal to change the B2Bi password through SEAS.

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over 7 years ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Usability 1 Future consideration

FTPS/SFTP list command to show folder timestamp

Currently only files show the last modified timestamps while folders show current timestamp of the list request. Proper behavior would be to also show folder last modified timestamp which is already available in the SI data model.
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Not under consideration