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Sterling B2B Integrator

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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...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 1 Submitted

Native PGP should perform at least comparatively with Command Line versions of PGP when encrypting large files

Recent versions of B2Bi have included a version of PGP (Native PGP) built into the product which allows users to perform PGP operations within B2Bi rather than having to use the CLA2 adapter to call these operations. This on paper provides many be...
12 days ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Databricks connector for SB2Bi

Today, Databricks is a major player in the data industry. The strategic directions of the Group have led to the construction of an Azure Data Lake, and the data management solution implemented to ingest, process, and expose data in this DL is Data...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Allow all decryption ciphers for OFTP according to the official Odette specifications

We were told that the SI software is coded based upon https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5024#section-10.2 which only includes 2 ciphers for decryption and these are outdated. Companies are switching to a more secure cipher which prevents us...

The backend service which connects CDSA adapters from SSP to B2bi does not load balance

The backend service which connects CDSA adapters from SSP to B2bi does not load balance. Looks like the backend service is tied to only 1 particular sfg-asi node at a time and when the adapter goes down on that B2bi node, inbound connectivity from...

Standardise Audit Report for Configuration Changes

The Dashboard Audit Report is not consistent when reporting on operator IDs making configuration changes. Most configuration changes, e.g. adapters, partner profiles, business processes, are logged on the Audit Report under the User ID that made t...
about 2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 0 Submitted

Deployment and Rollback Enhancements

We are requesting the IBM Sterling Integrator (B2Bi) development team to implement an enhanced rollback mechanism for non-outage upgrades in environments consisting of multiple clusters. The current rollback strategy relies on restoring a backup s...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

SSL Certificates Management (CA, Trusted, System)

Certificate management in SB2Bi requires a lot of handling because nothing is managed dynamically. To establish an HTTPS connection, it is necessary to specify the SSL server certificate (CA Certificate) to be used for negotiating the transaction....
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Enhance the EBMS:0006 Polling Response Detail

Currently the B2BAC platform returns the generic EMBS:0006 error response to a polling request with the generic description "There is no message available for pulling from this MPC at this moment' This generic response is returned in three distinc...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Simplify the JDBC Driver Update Procedure

During a recent database migration, it was necessary to update the JDBC driver used by Sterling Integrator. The procedure to do this is well-documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-update-jdbc-driver-ibm-sterling-b2b-integrator-vers...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted