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Sterling B2B Integrator

Prevent Plaintext Passwords from Being Written to Upgrade and Installation Logs During Re-Encryption

During in-place upgrades of IBM Sterling B2B Integrator (for example, upgrading from 6.0.3 or 6.1.1 to 6.2.2), the upgrade process decrypts legacy credentials and re-encrypts them using newer encryption algorithms. As part of this process, the ins...
2 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

DB Password to be fetched from Password Safe like HarshiCorp

Sterling Integrator should retrieve the database password dynamically from a credential vault solution such as HashiCorp Vault or CyberArk. Password rotation performed in the vault should be transparent to the application, without requiring servic...
26 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

Support TAF/TAC for Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC and ExaCC provide resilience through multiple nodes, and the primary database can fail over between these nodes. Historically, Sterling Integrator has experienced database connection pool exhaustion issues where the Oracle database has ...
17 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) Submitted

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 (...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

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...
10 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security Submitted

Add Maximum Message Consumption Limit to Kafka Consumer Service for Business Process Implementations

When using the Kafka Consumer Service within a custom Business Process instead of the Kafka Consumer Streams Adapter, there is currently no straightforward option to limit the number of messages consumed during a single execution. We propose addin...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Allow Kafka Consumer Streams Adapter to bootstrap a Business Process per Consumed Message

Currently, the Kafka Consumer Streams Adapter consumes messages from a Kafka topic and stores them in a mailbox. This is the only available processing option, requiring an additional step to retrieve messages from the mailbox and invoke a Business...
3 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications Submitted

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 ...
4 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

Enable Full Certificate Replacement Through Sterling B2B Integrator APIs

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator should provide API functionality to replace or rotate the certificate material associated with an existing certificate object, equivalent to the functionality currently available through the Sterling B2B Integrator user...
25 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 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/...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration Submitted

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