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Sterling B2B Integrator

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10 years lifespan service

There is a 10 year lifespan for the mailbox messages and it's workflows and data entry related. At the moment the way to clean this messages and all database entrys is creating a BP that deletes the messages and managing the associate bp to doc se...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Need Corresponding Release of Vulnerabilities Fixed by Recently Released Patches/Fix Packs

There needs to be planned release(s) of known security vulnerabilities that are addressed in recent patches, i.e. 6.1.2.4 through regular channels (subscribed notifications). That seems to be how they've been released for IBM Sterling products in ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 2 Not under consideration

DCB Information is missing in the parameters passed through the Process Data for CDSA Runtask

We have a requirement for additional parameters to be passed to the B2B Integrator CDSA through the Runtask exit to the Runtask Business Process script. Previously, parameters have been added to the data passed from the inbound Connect:Direct sess...
5 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

How to pass SACCT and PACCT details to remote CD Node using CDServer CopyTo Service in sterling integrator?

We have a requirement to PASS the SACCT and PACCT details to remote CD node from sterling integrator. We do not find any relavent fields in the CopyTo service in sterling integrtor to handle these values. Can you please provide the tags we need to...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 4 Not under consideration

CyberArk AIM Integration/Connector

As part of security's best practices, it is mandatory that all applications have a connector with CyberArk to retrieve passwords from functional users, so it isn't allowed to storage static passwords in the local servers/Properties files from appl...
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 5 Not under consideration

Connect to SMB shares from Sterling B2B Integrator hosted on Unix / Linux

For Sterling Integrator hosted on Unix/Linux OS, there is no direct capability to exchange files with Windows Network Shared folders. The recommended solution from IBM for this is to use a samba client on the Unix/Linux machine and mount the windo...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration

Portable installation for B2B (non container)

In our environment we do not use container for B2B, but we have an automated installation process using IBM Installation Manager, however this process is slow and difficult to generate all the steps to make it autonomous. We would like the B2B ins...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Indicate Perimeter Servers which do not have a Service Adapter using it

In Troubleshooter, SI shows the current status of Perimeter Servers. This is the location where users are able to disable/enable the PS. On this same screen, it could also show a count of how many service adapters are using each perimeter server.e...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Update db_optimization_tool.sh to support Oracle and other DB Vendors

In the past IBM provided the db_optimization_tool.sh script with B2B Integrator to facilitate index reorgs with MySQL DBs. Several companies such as my own will only implement vendor scripts for index reorgs. Can IBM update that script and supply it.
over 3 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 1 Not under consideration

Generative AI for creating B2Bi BPs like Copilot from github

Customer are asking us what is our roadmap to implement AI features in Sterling Data Exchange solutions focused on SCCM, SFG and B2Bi. As a leader of MFT/B2B Integration they would like to know our postion regarding that. For example, is it possib...
over 1 year ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration