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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...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 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...
about 1 month 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

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...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Global Cleanup Logic in External Purge Process

The external purge functionality in B2BI has shown significant improvement compared to the internal purge mechanism. However, further enhancements are needed to ensure the database and file system remain lightweight, scalable, and cost-efficient i...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 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....
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Support for Oracle 23ai

Oracle have renamed Oracle 23c to Oracle 23ai as of May 2024. Customers technology stacks are being updated to use RHEL9 and Oracle 23ai so we need this to be supported. Although there is no general purpose on premise version other than Oracle23ai...

Private Key Authentication for JDBC Connections

Our current Sterling 6.1.2 is connecting to Snowflake DB using JDBC (Snowflake driver) with username/password authentication method. Now, due to security reasons, the Snowflake is enforcing private key authentication (.p8) instead of password. But...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 0 Submitted

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...

Need to have a way to switch EBICS User Roles

We have a current situation where our client has asked us to switch the roles of two EBICS user accounts—from technical to non-technical and vice versa. I'm asking for a way to configure a current EBICS user without having to delete the user accou...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Submitted