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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...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Installation & Upgrade 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...
4 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Performance 0 Submitted

Enhancing ISA Envelope Handling to Support Transaction-Level Control Number Checks

At present, a single ISA envelope is shared across multiple transactions for a given partner/client/version combination. This setup limits our ability to implement transaction-specific ISA envelope configurations—particularly for enabling duplicat...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Onboarding 1 Submitted

Add ITX ACHIVE(ZIP) Adapter support on ITXA.

We are using ITXA for ITX map processing and there was an expectation that ITXA supports all ITX Adapters. However, that is not the case, as we recently discovered that ITXA does not support ZIP Adapter use in our ITX maps when run on ITXA. Althou...
7 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender Advanced 1 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...
about 1 month ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / B2B Advanced Communications 0 Submitted

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) roles for integration between S3 adapter and S3 buckets.

Today, SBI only supports access to AWS S3 buckets via secret and access keys. While keys can be configured, the preference from our security and cloud team is to have ARN roles supported as key management becomes difficult with rotating keys every...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / APIs & SDKs 0 Submitted

Dynamic Date Range Filter in Scheduled ICC Reports

Description: We request an enhancement to IBM Control Centre(ICC) to allow dynamic date range filtering for scheduled reports—specifically, the ability to configure the Event Date/Time filter to automatically include data from the last X days(>...
6 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Reporting 1 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...

Sterling CCM should support Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) in MS-SQL

A recent Pen Test found hashed system passwords in the 'CC_FILES' table in the SCCM database. The recommendation is to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) on the SQL tables. However on raising this with IBM, it was found that SCCM does not support DDM ...
5 months ago in Sterling Control Center Monitor / Security 0 Submitted

Enable SEAS to directly consume SAML/OIDC passed roles.

Enhancement request for the SEAS (STERLING External Authentication Server) service. Request SEAS have the ability to consume roles or entitlements through federation service, all roles are passed through the federated service from a role that is s...
about 1 year ago in Sterling External Authentication Server / Security 0 Submitted