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FSA(File System Adaptor) creating folders Automatically

Currently when extracting a files using File System Adaptor, by default FSA automatically creates the folder if it does not exists. There should be a parameter using which I can decide if I want FSA to create the folder automatically or not.
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Not under consideration

The ability for B2B Integrator to auto accept host keys

At present, we manually accept host keys whenever they are updated by external servers. We would like the B2B integrator to automatically accept these host key changes.
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

HULFT is a next-generation enterprise solution for managed file transfer (MFT)

file transfer
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 1 Not under consideration

Control the Business process scheduler execution timing by timezone

We are a global organization and have our B2Bi server installed in PST but have jobs scheduled to run in EST, PST, GMT, AEST, BST, etc. Currently we do not have a way to pick and choose the timezone for the BPs to get triggered. It defaults to the...
3 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

FTPS/SFTP list command to show folder timestamp

Currently only files show the last modified timestamps while folders show current timestamp of the list request. Proper behavior would be to also show folder last modified timestamp which is already available in the SI data model.
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Standards 1 Not under consideration

Problems when resuming a BP on certain type of errors

In some cases, that can be reproduced, when a Business Process is running and a database outage occurs, this BPs goes into a halted status with "Rollback Transaction Error" and "Commit Transaction Error" errors. This situation appears to create so...
6 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Report on the Ciphers and MAC algorithms and TLS versions in use for all trading partner connections

In order to be able to remove deprecated ciphers and algorithms, it is handy to know if any existing trading partners are utilising these to (a) determine impact of removal, and (b) identify and provide correspondence to affected partners when we ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Security 1 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling Products - provide Ansible / Chef playbooks for patching and deploying products

Manual installation and patching of IBM Sterling products is very risky, time-consuming, and error-prone, which is not sustainable for long-term support. Our business is seeking automated playbook recipes (e.g., Chef or Ansible) from IBM for produ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Allow DENY permissions for the SCHEDULER

For example, for out-of-hours incidents, we would like to allow a certain operator-type role to be able to Disable a scheduled business process or service but not to be able to modify the actual schedule itself. Currently the on-duty operator has ...
7 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Administration & Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Sterling B2B Integrator support for Postgres open source database

We are being asked to move to Postgres open-source database for cost efficiencies and would like IBM Sterling Integrator to support both Postgres open-source database in an AWS cloud environment and on an on-premise deployment of Postgres. The rea...
8 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Technology Stack Support (OS, DB, Protocols) 1 Not under consideration