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Provide an option to perform non-recursive file listing on AWS S3 buckets in Sterling B2B Integrator.

Currently, the AWS S3 list operation in Sterling B2B Integrator is always recursive. When a bucket (or its subfolders) contains a very large number of files, the list operation becomes extremely heavy. This causes Business Processes to hang, time ...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 0 Submitted

EDIFACT Control Number override parameters are not unique

Hello Team, In our current implementation, we are attempting to override the EDIFACT control numbers present in both the UNB and UNH segments. However, through investigation with the PMR, we discovered that the Override parameters are being reused...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Include wildcard support in Sterling B2B for C:D transfers

Hello, We have identified that the wildcard (*) function for sending or receiving with the C:D Sterling adapter does not work. It is unable to automatically detect all possible files located in a mailbox using the wildcard. While it does copy the ...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 3 Needs more information

ITXA should require user passwords be changed at least yearly. Preferably every 90 days.

End user passwords are not forced to be reset. According to best practice security standards they shoudl be changed every 90 days or yearly. ITXA has no forced password change functionality. There shoudl be foreced password change based on time. F...
about 2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Add ITX ACHIVE(ZIP) Adapter support on ITXA.

We are using ITXA for ITX map processing and there was an expectation that ITXA supports all ITX Adapters. However, that is not the case, as we recently discovered that ITXA does not support ZIP Adapter use in our ITX maps when run on ITXA. Althou...
8 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

Archival of old version of codelist,Maps and envelope

Archiving of old unused maps or code list
2 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Submitted

Enable SNI support for SSL Cert Grabber

Currently if you use the SSL Cert Grabber to pull back a certificate from an endpoint that is using SNI to determine which TLS certificate to return, you will not get the correct TLS cert, but the TLS cert for the base domain. This can make it dif...
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 2 Planned for future release

Add native support for connecting to Db2 using TLS 1.3 in IBM ITXA

Our ITXA instances (version 10.x) run on RHEL 8 and connect to Db2 11.5.9 databases. Security policy mandates that all encrypted channels move to TLS 1.3 by Q4 2025. Db2 has offered TLS 1.3 since 11.5.8, enabled with SSL_VERSIONS TLSV12,TLSV13 .Ho...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 Submitted

SPE Transformation Service adding CDATA for Process Data update

CDATA is adding a prefix in process data for ITXA transformation when actual data contains "&" in the input file which is causing the issue. Currently, with SI transformation/translation service, the prefix is not getting added. However, in...
12 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 0 Under review