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Sterling B2B Integrator

External Key Vault configuration

Background & Customer Context: Enterprise clients running or planning to run containerized IBM Sterling workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift (such as Bradesco) can be required by corporate governance to centralize credentials in external vaults (...
10 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

Control DB pool ephemeral ports from B2Bi

We should ideally be able to define port range to be used by DB pools. Currently it takes any random port available which is cumbersome and we have had times where we had run into issues due to this. [siadmin@ediapp01pakr logs]$ netstat -antp | gr...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Submitted

Enable full support for ECC-based PGP keys (ECDH/ECDSA/EdDSA) in Sterling B2B Integrator for encryption, decryption, signing, and verification.

Currently, IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (including Native PGP) does not support end-to-end usage of ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) keys for PGP operations. This has been confirmed by support in TS022476995. Observed limitations:- ECC keys (ECDH/...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Enhancement Request: Support for Configuring an Alternate OS User for the File System Adapter

Hi,In our environment, we have many transfers configured with the File System Adapter (FSA) to send files to remote NAS locations using the SMB protocol.In our Active Directory environment, the technical user used by IBM B2Bi is granted access to ...

Capability to include specific directory/files listing for AWS S3 Client Adapter

AWS S3 Client Adapter is listing all files under a bucket. Having option to list from a specific directory and to list specific files helps in seamless integration with AWS S3.
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Add Oracle 26ai Oracle 26ai to the list of supported database platforms

We are executing a multi-year database modernization initiative, with 2029 serving as the planned end date for Oracle 19c workloads within our environment.
19 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Submitted

Consider using the JDK instead of the JRE in the B2Bi ASI container

In support case TS019713194, we needed to use the IBM Java 8 jextract dump utility: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=tools-dump-extractor This was not available because the B2Bi ASI container uses a JRE instead of a JDK. Thi...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs Submitted

REST APIs for Business Process Discovery

Organizations running large IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (B2Bi) environments often manage hundreds or thousands of Business Processes (BPs). In our environment, we maintain over 1,000 Business Processes, making it challenging to determine: Which ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Add Authentication Principal Search In Communication Session Search

The Principal field available in the Communication Sessions search is intended to search for the session-level Principal value. When connecting with Object Storage Client Adapter, Authentication Level Events are not searched, though they are still...
27 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability Submitted

Container type should give options of SVC/XML in the dropdown while configuring BTF service

Specific to container files as part of BFG requirements Client should be able to provide their container files in SVC/XML/ZIP format. When we check on the BTF service configuration we can only see blank/ZIP given. To enable SVC and XML ,we need th...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade Submitted