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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Limit Company Dropdown in Modern Inflight to only Customer Type = Customer Values for IBMers

The Company dropdown in Modern Inflight needs to only show Customer Type = Customer values for IBMers users. Currently non-customer types are showing in the list as well and it makes the list too long
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Support Oracle RAC in load balance mode

IBM's largest customers have invested heavily to implement Oracle RAC databases for resilience but due to the way B2Bi's database is designed there are performance implications to switching on RAC load balance mode. This forces all queries to a si...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 2 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 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 4 Under review

InFlight API - request to filter by Business Alias

This a request for an enhancement to the current API for retrieving tracking details from InFlight. Specifically, we would like to introduce the ability to filter by Business Alias. Currently, the API retrieves the Business Alias in the response b...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

Display Protocol Delivery Failure Error Details in InFlight Event Details

When a file fails to get delivered via SFTP, AS2, etc. after the retry limit gets exhausted, we just see some basic details in the Event details of the "Retry Limit" step in InFlight as shown below. Reached retry count limit - Retry Count Limit: 5...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Under review

When I told our Trading Partner I show the transaction was picked up they asked for the Mailbag # so their VAN could investigate. It would be nice if the Mailbag # is available in InFlight.

For when a Trading Partner is told they have picked it up and then ask us for the Mailbag # we won't have to open a case to get this information, will save time for both IBM & our company.
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 2 Under review

HA Connectivity for Sterling Integrator to Oracle Database and Support Multiple scan address for RACs Scan

Hi Team, We would like to have a feature in sterling integrator to support HA connectivity when connect to oracle Database and also to support multiple scan address for RACs scan. Currently in sterling application we have configured the jdbc conne...
about 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Under review

Make the zip file layer more efficient when unzipping large numbers of files

Any customer using zip files which contains a large number of files (1000s) to be delivered to a single or even multiple consumers will notice that it can take hours to deliver even a small number 4800 small sub 1KB files to a single mailbox. If a...
over 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Under review

Fix the duplicate messaging issue for mailbox ftp/sftp server adapters

IBM says in their documentation that duplicate messages are allowed by default and is controlled by a parameter in the mailbox.properties file (disallowDuplicateMessages= false). This is inaccurate, We are seeing errors where duplicate filenames a...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Under review