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Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols)

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Compatibility with databases managed on cloud - DBaaS

On the last deployment scenarios in which applications are deployed on cloud (on virtual servers or containers) it would be useful to be able to use DBaaS distributions such us DB2 on Cloud or Azure SQL. It is a backward step to have to use on-pre...

Support for Linux 5.x kernels

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) >= 1.18.0 provisions the worker nodes with a Ubuntu running 5.x kernels (e.g. 5.4.0-1034-azure) and the deployment of sfg:6.1.0.0 and sfg:6.1.0.1 containers fail because Linux 5.* is not included in *.Linux.VERSIO...

Microsoft Exchange disabling basic Authentication based connections to Exchange online

Microsoft have announced that they will be disabling basic Authentication based connections to Exchange online. Basic Authentication means that the client application passes the username and password with every request. Although simple to setup an...

Support for Oracle 12 and onwards Containerized Databases (CDB) / Pluggable Databases (PDB)

As per today containerized databases or pluggable databasea are not supported when using an Oracle 12.2. database. (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/does-sterling-b2b-integrator-support-oracle-19c-and-container-cdbpdb-architecture-model). How...

Please support Oracle Enterprise Linux in B2B Integrator

Please support Oracle Enterprise Linux in B2B Integrator. The kernel is identical to that of RHEL and it just requires thorough testing of the product by installing it on OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux). OEL is becoming more and more popular and als...

RHEL8/RH8 Support for Sterling B2B Integrator

End of Support With the "End of Support" notification for SI 5.2.6 recently announced, preparation to upgrade to SI 6.0.0 is essential. SI 6.0.0.1 currently supports RHEL7 (which reaches "End of Support" in Aug 2021. Rather than installing a ...

Support for MS SQL 2017

Support for MS SQL 2017

Support for MS Windows Server 2019

Please add Microsoft Windows Server 2019 to the list of supported OSes forB2B Integrator 6.x versions

Sterling B2B Integrator full support for SQL Server 2016 'Always On' features

The database that supports B2B Integrator needs to be highly available - and the facility which supports high availability in SQL Server 2016 is the "Always-On-Availability-Group" feature. B2BI needs to support this to provide a highly available p...

Add support for AWS S3 storage as the back end file system instead of requiring a Clustered File System/NAS Share

AWS EFS does not provide adequate performance or HA to be used as the back end file system for file storage, and EBS can not be clustered across multiple nodes. Native support for S3 object storage would enable us to take advantage of the upcoming...