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Sterling B2B Integrator

Introduce a native capability in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator to consistently capture and expose real client source IP addresses for both internal and external connections across all protocols, without dependency on SEAS.

Why is it useful? Enables accurate identification of source systems for all file transfers and connections Improves incident troubleshooting and root cause analysis (RCA) Strengthens audit, compliance, and KYC controls by maintaining IP-level trac...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

Sterling B2B Integrator user identity (certificate/key) renewal is complex

Sterling B2B user identity key renewal activity is very complex, whenever we renewal SSH keys renewal, we need to share SSH keys with Third parties and then update at the Partner level which is too much time taking. Is there any other better appro...
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Sterling Integrator upgrade errors are not user‑friendly

Sterling Integrator upgrade errors are not user‑friendly at all. This is a very common pain point across environments. Please make it very clear error message why upgrade failing ( DB specific , unsupported OS or any other package dependency ?)
1 day ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Submitted

Retain b2biAPI Liberty server.xml customisation during upgrades

During each upgrade of B2Bi (SFG), the b2biAPI package must be reinstalled using the InstallService script. This is typically performed immediately after the core product upgrade. This re-installation of the b2biAPI package reverts some customisat...
24 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs Submitted

Application-level timeout for WSMQ_OpenSession service

In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), we observed that when a network connection is blocked by a Kubernetes Network Policy, the WSMQ_OpenSession service can take between 30 and 40 minutes to fail and return the error: MQException during MQCONN: CC=2 ...
6 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance Submitted

Improvements to the B2B API framework

B2Bi customers are making large time, resource, and budget investments in automation. These automation projects rely heavily on the B2Bi API framework. The current API framework and documentation do not lend itself to large scale automation projec...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs Submitted

improve house cleaning efficiency

We at FEPOC has been using this product together with ITXA and ITX since 2019. The issue here is that the house cleaning jobs are not keeping up with the high volume we process every day. See the detail word document in support ticket TS018931836....
about 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance Planned for future release

Databricks connector for SB2Bi

Today, Databricks is a major player in the data industry. The strategic directions of the Group have led to the construction of an Azure Data Lake, and the data management solution implemented to ingest, process, and expose data in this DL is Data...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

SSL Certificates Management (CA, Trusted, System)

Certificate management in SB2Bi requires a lot of handling because nothing is managed dynamically. To establish an HTTPS connection, it is necessary to specify the SSL server certificate (CA Certificate) to be used for negotiating the transaction....
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications Submitted

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
11 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance Submitted

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