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Sterling B2B Integrator

B2Bi authentication against MS SQL Server DB using Asure Managed Identity or via a MS EntraID

B2Bi currently relies on username-password authentication for backend SQL database connectivity resulting in the continued use of static credentials. Requesting that B2Bi authenticates against the MS SQL Server DB using Asure Managed Identity or v...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Under review

Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Support in Sterling B2B Integrator

Quantum computing presents a significant long-term risk to several widely deployed cryptographic algorithms currently used to protect data in transit, including RSA, ECDHE, and DHE, which form the foundation of modern TLS implementations. The imme...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Under review

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...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs Under review

Adding string search functionality for BPML without export

We often times have multiple business process related to same partners, even after having some naming standard there are some that are named differently over the period. When the business requests for execution, it becomes very difficult to point ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Under review

B2BAC support for critical Certificate Policies extensions containing Policy Qualifiers

The B2BAC application currently performs strict PKIX certificate validation and rejects certificates that contain a critical Certificate Policies extension with Policy Qualifiers, including User Notice qualifiers. This behaviour is consistent with...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications Under review

Sterling B2B Integrator HSM Integration to store TLS certificate encryption key only

In Regulated and Banking Industry the private key/system certificates of Sterling B2B Integrator can't be stored in database and need to be integrated with HSM. For application with high volumes to communicate with HSM for TLS offloading which wou...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Under review

Ability to invoke a BP in a specific queue other than its default queue

In order to prioritize processing of certain transactions over others in common BP's it would be useful if we were able to specify a specific queue for an Async BP to be invoked in rather than have it invoked in its default queue.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance Under review

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...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Under review

Extend field length in table SBIADMIN.SCI_ENTITY_EXTNS to accommodate longer encrypted passwords

We are working to configure the Object Client Store Adapter as documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/b2b-integrator/6.2.0?topic=z-object-store-client-adapter When we attempt to use/store the encrypted credential, our Trading Partners become co...

Support Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Service Principal Authentication in IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Object Store Client Adapter

The current Object Store Client Adapter supports authentication to Azure Storage using a Shared Access Signature (SAS) Token. However, Voya Financial have adopted Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) authentication standards and security policies that ma...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other Under review